This week was Amplitudes, my old subfield’s big yearly conference. This year, it’s at Queen Mary University of London. I’m too busy to attend these days, now that nobody is paying me a salary to do that sort of thing. But it’s still a good chance to keep up with the field, which helps me...
We all live in time, but remarkably time itself remains one of the most mysterious aspects to our existence. Not even Einstein’s fabulous theories of Relativity can help us deeply understand what time is, why it even exists, or why humans and all sentient life experience it the way they do. This...
Preamble Bekenstein's Information (Wikipedia)Black holes are not too esoteric anymore after LIGO's success and successful imaging efforts. Their entropy behaves much different than the entropy of an ordinary matter. This leads to incredible discovery of so called holographic principle. The...