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Leonard Susskind | "ER = EPR" or "What's Behind the Horizons of Black Holes?" - 1 of 2

Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind gives the first of two mini-lectures on "ER = EPR", the idea that quantum entanglement and wormholes are related. It covers what lies behind black hole horizons.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people point to it as the more detailed follow-up when articles touch on entanglement, holography and black holes.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics
Topic
black holes and entanglement
Format
lecture
Level
advanced
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
8
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • This is probably inspired by the recent hype about messenger lectures by Susskind [LINK] There is also more detailed lecture available here on this particular topic [VIDEO]

    vladimirralev on Hacker News · 2015-08
    In How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity
  • This kind of sounds like a variation/extension on Leonard Susskind's hologram reality, he mentions in these presentations and lectures[1] that a lot of the ideas came from Maldacena and the soup can (I hope that's the right video, it's been a while since I watched …

    Neeek on Hacker News · 2016-07
    In In Search of Time’s Origin (2014)
  • I found these lectures by Leonard Susskind very insightful: - Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram ( [LINK] ) - Leonard Susskind | "ER = EPR" or "What's Behind the Horizons of Black Holes?" ( [VIDEO] ) - Entanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum …

    ithkuil on Hacker News · 2019-01
    In Strangeness of Black Holes

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