Tag Archives: Susskind

Lecture 1: The Theoretical Minimum

Posted on October 1, 2014 by PlatoHagel

Published on Feb 16, 2012 (January 9, 2012) Leonard Susskind provides an introduction to quantum mechanics. See: Lecture 1: The Theoretical Minimum Dialogos of Eide

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What is Your Theory On Blackhole Radiation?

Posted on June 25, 2014 by PlatoHagel

MSU Professor Chris Adami has found the solution to a long-standing problem with Stephen Hawking’s black hole theory. In a groundbreaking study recently published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, Adami found that various types of information, as specific … Continue reading →

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Gravitational Collapse and the Horizon

Posted on January 30, 2014 by PlatoHagel

It has been suggested [1] that the resolution of the information paradox for evaporating black holes is that the holes are surrounded by firewalls, bolts of outgoing radiation that would destroy any infalling observer. Such firewalls would break the CPT … Continue reading →

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Entanglement and the Geometry of Spacetime

Posted on December 24, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Theorists have forged a connection between wormholes in spacetime (above) and a quantum phenomenon called entanglement. But how big an insight is this? It depends on whom you ask. Susskind and Maldacena note that in both papers, the original quantum … Continue reading →

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Analogies Make You Think

Posted on October 23, 2013 by PlatoHagel

See: Falling into a Blackhole– On Sept. 25, four theoretical physicists — Raphael Bousso (U.C. Berkeley), Juan Maldacena (Institute for Advanced Study), Joseph Polchinski (U.C. Santa Barbara) and Leonard Susskind (Stanford University) — answered your questions about the latest theories … Continue reading →

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Information Loss

Posted on July 23, 2013 by PlatoHagel

You see, people are uncomfortable with this information loss. It’s the minority view.Pg 64, The Cyclic Universe: A Conversation with Roger Penrose I am certainly uncomfortable with it, as I have always seen it from the idea  as to what … Continue reading →

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The black-hole information paradox, complementarity, and firewalls by Leonard Susskind

Posted on July 11, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The black-hole information paradox, complementarity, and firewalls by Leonard Susskind, Stanford University, at the University of California, Santa Cruz Institute for the Philosophy of Cosmology July 5, 2013 http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/IPC2013.html Dialogos of Eide

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Cool horizons for entangled black holes

Posted on June 15, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Schwarzschild wormholes General relativity contains solutions in which two distant black holes are connected through the interior via a wormhole, or Einstein-Rosen bridge. These solutions can be interpreted as maximally entangled states of two black holes that form a complex … Continue reading →

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TED Talk-Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman

Posted on May 31, 2011 by PlatoHagel

I decided when I was asked to do this that what I really wanted to talk about was my friend Richard Feynman. I was one of the fortunate few that really did get to know him and enjoyed his presence. … Continue reading →

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Entheorizing

Posted on April 12, 2011 by PlatoHagel

LEONARD SUSSKIND: And I fiddled with it, I monkeyed with it. I sat in my attic, I think for two months on and off. But the first thing I could see in it, it was describing some kind of particles … Continue reading →

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