Building Traversable Wormholes (In Theory) - Livestream

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity tells us that gravity is geometry, in the form of the curvature of spacetime. But what spacetime shapes are allowed in this theory? Traversable wormholes -- tunnels through spacetime that observers can pass through -- have long been relegated to the realm of science fiction. In this talk, we will aim to understand why they were once thought to be difficult to build, and how recent developments in quantum gravity have shown us how to bypass these obstacles, and construct traversable wormholes (without invoking novel physics). Along the way, we will touch on the relation to holographic systems and quantum teleportation.

Speaker: Dr. Brianna Grado - White

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