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7:30 pm, Wednesday, November 9th, 2016
Fairmont Lounge, St. John's College
2111 Lower Mall, UBC
Gravity and Entanglement
Mark van Raamsdonk
UBC Physics
Quantum mechanics is a basic set of rules for how our universe works at a
fundamental level. It is essential to our understanding of matter, from
elementary particles to the macroscopic world. One of the greatest
challenges in physics is to
understand how gravity, shown by Einstein to come from the dynamics of
spacetime, fits in to this quantum picture. This is crucial to properly
understand black holes, the expansion of our universe, and how the
universe began.
In the 1970's, Stephen Hawking argued that gravity and black holes may
actually be inconsistent with quantum mechanics. In this talk, I will suggest that not only are gravity and quantum
mechanics mutually consistent, but that spacetime may be a fundamentally
quantum mechanical entity that would not even exist without the inherently
quantum mechanical phenomenon known as entanglement.
To learn more please visit his
webpage.
Additional resources for this talk: slides, video.
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