Audio / Video

Quantum Mechanics and Geometry of Spacetime

  • 00:59:03

Description

Quantum mechanics is important for determining the geometry of spacetime. We will review the role of quantum fluctuations that determine the large scale structure of the universe. In some model universes we can give an alternative description of the physics in terms of a theory of particles that lives on its boundary. This implies that the geometry is an emergent property. Furthermore, entanglement plays a crucial role in the emergence of geometry. Large amounts of entanglement are conjectured to give rise to geometric connections, or wormholes, between distant and non-interacting systems.

Details

Title

Quantum Mechanics and Geometry of Spacetime

Creator

University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Physics

Published

Berkeley, CA, University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Physics, April 6, 2015

Full Collection Name

Physics Colloquia

Type

Video

Format

Lecture.

Extent

1 streaming video file

Other Physical Details

digital, sd., col.

Archive

Physics Library

Note

Recorded at a colloquium held on April 6, 2015, sponsored by the Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley.

originally produced as an .mts file in 2015

Speakers: Maldacena, Juan.

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Collection

Physics Colloquia

Tracks

colloquia/4-6-15Maldacena.mp4 00:59:03

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