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Black hole Firewalls - with Sean Carroll and Jennifer Ouellette

A Royal Institution event with Sean Carroll and Jennifer Ouellette on what happens if you fall into a black hole, covering the firewall paradox, the information problem and the holographic principle.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a high-level but clear explanation of the black hole information paradox and competing theories, by a physicist known for making quantum mechanics approachable.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
The Royal Institution
Topic
black hole information paradox
Format
lecture
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
5
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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  • Black hole Firewalls with Sean Carroll and Jennifer Ouellette (45m+50s quick summary of the holographic principle) [VIDEO] Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram (more dense/verbose) [LINK]

    platz on Hacker News · 2017-01
    In Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe

  • Also see Black hole Firewalls - with Sean Carroll (speaking at 20:25) and Jennifer Ouellette [VIDEO] which explains the paradox and several different competing theories at a high level.

    platz on Hacker News · 2019-08
    In How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?

  • There's a Royal Institute video featuring Sean Carroll and Jen Ouelette[1] that more fully explains the problem, but as I understand it it comes down to a quantum mechanical principle called monogamy of entanglement---there's only so much entanglement to go around, and if two particles …

    andreareina on Hacker News · 2020-10
    In The Black Hole Information Paradox Comes to an End

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