Presenter Full Name
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Dr. Edgar Shaghoulian
Institution
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UCSC
Year & Semester
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2023 Fall
Presentation Date
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September 25, 2023
Stephen Hawking's black hole information paradox is a conflict between gravity and quantum mechanics, and it has been both a crisis and a guiding light for theoretical physicists for over 40 years. I will describe recent work showing that wormholes in quantum gravity lead to a new formula for entropy -- this formula corrects Hawking's and is consistent with both gravity and quantum mechanics. I will end with prospects for quantum cosmology.