Video: Leonard Susskind - The Black Hole War

Leonard Susskind - The Black Hole War

Summary

Recognizing a contradiction in Stephen Hawking's claim that things disappear in black holes, Susskind and Gerard t'Hooft offered a counterargument aimed at disproving this controversial theory.



Susskind discusses the story behind the black hole conflict and how it has led to a better idea of how our universe works - The Commonwealth Club of California



Bio

Leonard Susskind - Leonard Susskind is a theoretical physics professor at Stanford University in the field of string theory and quantum field theory. Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory for his early contributions to the String Theory model of particle physics.

Highlights

01. Introduction                                                                    02 min 46 sec

02. Rewiring Ourselves                                                      04 min 41 sec

03. What is Information?                                                    03 min 17 sec

04. What Happens in a Black Hole?                                04 min 24 sec

05. The Horizon is Like a Hologram                                05 min 09 sec

06. The Best Portals Are Black Holes                              03 min 09 sec

07. Q1: Ink in a Bathtub                                                       03 min 58 sec

08. Q2: Two Pollywogs in a Black Hole                           01 min 23 sec

09. Q3: Consciousness                                                     00 min 43 sec

10. Q4: Should We Worry?                                                 00 min 37 sec

11. Q5: Where are These Holograms?                           03 min 40 sec

12. Q6: Loop Quantum Gravity                                           01 min 19 sec

13. Q7: Defining Forever                                                     01 min 36 sec

14. Q8: When Galaxies Collide                                         03 min 32 sec

15. Q9: Dark Energy and Dark Matter                               02 min 55 sec

16. Q10: Donut Shaped Universe?                                   00 min 56 sec

17. Many Ways to Put on a T Shirt                                     02 min 21 sec

18. Q11: Direction of Time?                                               01 min 47 sec

19. Q12: Intelligent Design in the Universe                     04 min 27 sec