Speaker
Gerard 't Hooft
(Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University)
Description
Three important insights are needed to understand black
holes, conservation of information, complementarity and
firewalls.
One: the gravitational force between in- and out-going
particles, two: the spherical wave expansion, and three:
antipodal identification.
Neglecting any one of these three points turns black holes
into complete mysteries, while they can be as transparent as
the hydrogen atom. It is shown how every partial wave obeys
a very simple, easily solvable, Schroedinger equation (just
as in the hydrogen atom), featuring only pure quantum states.
However, we do end up doing “new physics”, as soon as we
apply the required cut-offs at the Planck scale.
(The talk will be given via skype).
