Skip to main content
Back to Show
PBS Space Time

Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?

Season 10 Episode 10

Black holes clash in multiple ways with quantum mechanics. One such clash is the black hole information paradox—and a proposed solution—black hole complementarity—may forced us to radically rethink what it even means to say that something to exists.

Support Provided By
Season
What if Singularities DO NOT Exist?
14:44
The terrible singularity at the heart of the black hole may be no more.
Did JWST Solve The Mystery of Supermassive Black Hole Origin
14:33
We may have solved the mysterious origins of supermassive black holes in our universe.
Does Antimatter Create Anti-Gravity?
16:30
Does antimatter fall down, or does it fall up?
Can The Crisis in Cosmology Be Solved With Cosmic Voids?
14:29
Could cosmic voids be driving the universe?
What If There's A Black Hole Inside The Sun?
17:53
Is there a black hole hiding in the core of the Sun eating it from the inside out?
What if Humans Are Not Earth's First Civilization?
19:19
What if we aren't the first technological civilization on Earth?
Does Many Worlds Explain Quantum Probabilities?
19:03
Many World’s lack wavefunction collapse might be the key to the measurement problem.
What If Gravity is Not Quantum?
18:32
The holy grail of physics is a quantum theory of gravity. What if it’s not possible?
How Will We (Most Likely) Discover Alien Life?
18:32
Alien life will most likely be discovered by faint changes in the color of alien sunsets.
Why Did Attosecond Physics Win the Nobel Prize?
12:05
The 2023 Physics Nobel prize has been awarded to three physicists for attosecond physics.
JWST Discovered The Farthest Star Ever Seen!
15:59
With the James Webb Space Telescope we’ve now seen the earliest star ever detected.
Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave The Same Theory?
17:24
Some are arguing that Many Worlds and Pilot Wave are really the same.
Active loading indicator