Curved Spacetime, Black Holes & Holographic Quantum Gravity
Physical law, LIGO gravitational waves, singularity topology, and AdS/CFT entanglement
Follows general relativity and quantum mechanics to their modern frontier with Feynman, Kip Thorne, Roger Penrose, Leonard Susskind, Juan Maldacena, and Nima Arkani-Hamed.
Curriculum sequence
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The Relation of Mathematics to Physics (Messenger Lecture 2)
Illuminates why deep physical principles admit equivalent geometric and algebraic laws.
From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
Chronicles curved spacetime dynamics and LIGO's detection of merging black holes.
Singularity Theorems, Black Holes, and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
Examines global causal structure, trapped surfaces, and cosmological Weyl curvature.
ER = EPR: Wormholes, Horizon Firewalls, and Entanglement
Links Einstein-Rosen wormhole geometry directly to bipartite quantum entanglement.
The Meaning of Spacetime: Black Holes and Quantum Entanglement
Shows how bulk gravitational spacetime emerges holographically from boundary quantum mechanics.
The Future of Fundamental Physics: Spacetime and Quantum Amplitudes
Explores why Planck-scale scattering amplitudes point beyond smooth spacetime.