#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
May 5, 2025 · 3 h 7 min
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Janna Levin is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves.
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OUTLINE:
() – Introduction
() – Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
() – Black holes
() – Formation of black holes
() – Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
() – Inside the black hole
() – Supermassive black holes
() – Physics of spacetime
() – General relativity
() – Gravity
() – Information paradox
() – Fuzzballs & soft hair
() – ER = EPR
() – Firewall
() – Extra dimensions
() – Aliens
() – Wormholes
() – Dark matter and dark energy
() – Gravitational waves
() – Alan Turing and Kurt Godel
() – Grigori Perelman, Andrew Wiles, and Terence Tao
() – Art and science
() – The biggest mystery
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