Leonard Susskind: 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Symposium
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The 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics symposium was held on December 13, 2013, at Stanford University. Lectures on diverse aspects of particle physics, string theory and cosmology were presented by laureates Alan Guth, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Juan Maldacena, Alexander Polyakov, Ashoke Sen and Edward Witten, as well as by renowned physicists Leonard Susskind, George Efstathiou, Renata Kallosh, Eva Silverstein, Savas Dimopoulos and Shamit Kachru. The symposium's focus was, "The Future of Fundamental Science."
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Physics necessarily studies "local" effects of measurable, particle-like quantities that, on the flip side, are condensed qualitative fields of information, so either the Big Bang Theory of expansion from a hot dense state is calculated to match local phenomena, or the "emergent properties" of the mathematics are considered "timeless" and eternal. That's to say, either everything is emergent/eternally or a particular property to do with Black Holes is an independent property for which the math is "discovered". Which choice is made depends on what application the result is applied to, because even though an effect may seem purely local, it is related to everything else in some degree and averaged communication period such as indicated by the speed of light in this probabablistic environment, instantly or quantitatively towards now via the "wormhole" concept, or never again across a particular horizon towards infinity. (more than enough for a comment?)
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Why is it a paradox for Alice to be able to send a bomb or nasty message to Bob?
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I assume this is a thought experiment. I don't know if anyone has done any sort of entanglement experiments lately around , or in a black hole . Do you? I know a fellow once by the name of Einstein used to use thought experiments to help him generate his special and general theory of relativity although the majority of the success was due to his brilliant mathematics. But fortunately one could device experiments to validate the theories without having to do his somewhat more difficult thought experiments. As for example like having someone ride on a light wave. I assume this "breakthrough" has some experiment in the pipeline ready to test the hypothesis of which I assume is ER = EPR. It's going to be kind of difficult to toss someone called Alice and Bob in a black hole so I assume after the math is worked out correctly then a somewhat less dramatic demonstration could be pursued.
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At 14:15, an audience member asks what set of rules for Alice would be necessary to do such a computation to send a message to Bob (to paraphrase) and Susskind responds, saying he's working on a paper doing work to reverse chaotic flows. Is this paper published?
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the next Blackhole A0620-00 is 3500LJ away and the supermassive BH of milky way is 27,000 light-years away....
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"All of the energy and matter that existed still exists. Matter does not create energy of
itself. Matter enables energy to become manifest". -
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The future of fundamental science, does not involve quantum gravity (because by the time we do so we will be neck deep in trouble, if we were knee deep before), it depends on our quest to get to the heart of self-organized system (because it will take us nearer to the property of matter, that enables self- organizing process like evolution, and better understanding the program that drives it.The theory of "small changes", by Lee Smolin helps you take a peep into the future. The theory is yet not been proved sufficiently, although two predictions made in 1992 still stands-!!!
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This is HUGE! Here's the future of physics unfolding right now...
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Star trek in progres.
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