Black holes, relativity and quantum mechanics | Roger Penrose, Amélie Saintonge & Sean Carroll
171Roger Penrose, Sean Carroll and Amélie Saintonge tackle the paradox of Black Holes.
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Astronomers last year claimed to have achieved what was thought impossible, and captured an image of a black hole, seemingly proving the existence of these mysterious objects. Yet not everyone is convinced. Black holes are so described because they were proposed as a space from which nothing can escape. At the heart of the black hole physics seemed to come to an end, its laws in tatters. Stephen Hawking, having been the first to propose black holes, at the end of his life came to argue that they did not exist - at least in the sense in which they were first described.
Is the idea of a black hole from which nothing can escape a mistake? If so, how can we resolve the paradox that they were predicted by a combination of relativity and quantum mechanics? Or should we hold onto the idea of black holes, however mysterious and problematic they are?
World renowned mathematical nobel prize-winning physicist and Hawking collaborator Sir Roger Penrose, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll and UCL Professor of Astrophysics Amelie Saintonge tackle the paradox of Black Holes. David Malone hosts.
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Sir Roger Penrose is a mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics.
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is a research professor in the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics in the California Institute of Technology Department of Physics and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Amélie Saintonge is a professor of Astrophysics at UCL whose research is currently funded by the Royal Society. Amélie Saintonge studies the formation and evolution of galaxies, using the worlds largest radio telescopes to find out the makings of distant galaxies.
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