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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.
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