WSU Master Class: The Edges of the Universe with Andrew Strominger

Breakthrough Prize winner Andrew Strominger and string theorist Cumrun Vafa formulated the origin of black hole entropy. Join Strominger for an overview of how string theory has allowed us to understand how, and where, black holes store information.
This lecture was recorded on May 31, 2015, at the World Science Festival in New York City.
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[@pavangaonkardonigadde]

Incredible man!!! Just incredible!

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

It's great presentation. Thanks a lot WSU 👏👍

[@Bo-tz4nw]

Great, and those drawings...!

[@prashenjit4469]

Can we get those slides?

[@louisesmalling]

This lifts me, thank you.

[@isedairi]

Please get a hold of Susskind for this, he's getting old!

[@dennisscott2516]

I always consider myself an intelligent person till I hear a lecture from someone with the WSU.

[@gilianrampart8514]

They don't know if they know what they are talking about,they just try to know! Mankind is fresh out of the cave!

[@merlepatterson]

Mustn't black holes be contained within a purely definable and measurable mathematical area which is also real?

[@mokujin29]

All a matter of conjecture for now & forever.

[@merlepatterson]

@@mokujin29 Possibly, but not necessarily. Optical technology is still in its early stages for where it could possibly end up one day. Even the JWST will be outdated in 20 to 30 years.

[@mokujin29]

@@merlepatterson Totally , however the thing is that one can merely look into the past when we see around us in space , add to that the fact that the expansion is accelerating & we have already explored all kinds of rays in all the spectrums to look at the cosmos. We can only make educated guesses about the nature of bodies like black hole as the information is almost lost in there.

[@merlepatterson]

@@mokujin29 I guess we'll just have to wait for 13 billion years to find out if the expansion slows and black holes dissolve to a puff of dust in order to know for certain? As they say; "Time will tell", it just won't tell 'us'.

[@mokujin29]

@@merlepatterson Touche` , Please enjoy your weekend Mr. Patterson.

[@AbcDef-tl2kq]

1 for all

[@80sLuv]

Dr. Strominger lectures are like lectures of Bruce Banner from MCU in Avengers 1, 2, 3 & 4.

[@mokujin29]

SMH