Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions | Lex Fridman Podcast #468

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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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Black Hole Blues (book): https://amzn.to/42Nw7IE

How the Universe Got Its Spots (book): https://amzn.to/4m5De8k

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*OUTLINE:*

0:00 - Episode highlight

2:03 - Introduction

3:03 - Black holes

10:37 - Formation of black holes

21:28 - Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb

27:50 - Inside the black hole

40:53 - Supermassive black holes

44:22 - Physics of spacetime

47:25 - General relativity

52:56 - Gravity

1:09:29 - Information paradox

1:17:59 - Fuzzballs & soft hair

1:21:10 - ER = EPR

1:27:49 - Firewall

1:36:41 - Extra dimensions

1:39:06 - Aliens

1:54:42 - Wormholes

2:05:40 - Dark matter and dark energy

2:15:43 - Gravitational waves

2:27:51 - Alan Turing and Kurt Godel

2:40:05 - Grigori Perelman, Andrew Wiles, and Terence Tao

2:46:40 - Art and science

2:56:19 - The biggest mystery



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