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catdynamics | August 26, 2013The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is currently holding a "Rapid Response Workshop" on Black Holes: Complementarity, Fuzz, or Fire?, August 19-30.
Organizers: Raphael Bousso (UCB), Samir Mathur (OSU), Rob Myers (PI), Joe Polchinski (KITP), Lenny Susskind (Stanford)
The lunch talk today is Lenny Susskind "Inside Black Holes"
That talk will be available on video, audio and podcast feeds soon
The general session talks from the Fuzz, or Fire are available as they become available at the link above.
esiegel | March 8, 2013“You wait for a gem in an endless sea of blah.” -Lawrence Grossman
On the one hand, we have General Relativity, our theory of space, time, and gravity.
Image credit: Wikimedia commons user Johnstone; Earth from NASA's Galileo mission.
It describes the Universe on both large and small scales perfectly, from the hot Big Bang to our cold accelerating expansion, from vast superclusters of galaxies down to the interiors of black holes.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI), and the CLASH Team.
But General Relativity doesn't tell us everything. It doesn't tell us, for example, about…