The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?
The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?
- Event time: 1:00pm until 2:00pm
- Event date: 28th March 2023
- Speaker: Netta Engelhardt (MIT)
- Location: Higgs Centre Seminar Room, Room 4305, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) (James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
The black hole information paradox — whether information escapes an evaporating black hole or not — remains one of the most longstanding mysteries of theoretical physics. The apparent conflict between validity of semiclassical gravity at low energies and unitarity of quantum mechanics has long been expected to find its resolution in a complete quantum theory of gravity. Recent developments in the holographic dictionary, and in particular its application to entanglement and complexity, however, have shown that a semiclassical analysis of gravitational physics can reproduce a hallmark feature of unitary evolution. I will describe this recent progress and discuss some promising indications of a full resolution of the information paradox.
Netta will be here in person. Note, this Higgs Colloquium is extraordinarily on a Tuesday!
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