Talks

Location: ChemPhys 130
Time: 7:30 - 8:30 pm
Poster: Click here

Vijay Balasubramanian, The end of space and time

We are used to visualizing space as a stage on which things move and time is a marker for the passage of events. I will describe how Einstein combined space and time into a dynamical entity called “space-time” that can warp and bend in response to matter, giving rise to the force of gravity. I will then discuss the emerging understanding of space and time as simply approximate descriptions of a much more complex underlying reality. In this picture, space and time can appear out of, or disappear into, timeless and spaceless voids.

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