Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedJanna Levin: belief
5 May 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions
“I think everybody would say, the closer you get to the singularity, for sure, you have to include quantum mechanics.”
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- Janna Levin
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 5 May 2025
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…So according to him, the closer you get to the singularity, the more quantum mechanics comes into play, and therefore there is no singularity. There’s something else. I think everybody would say that. I think everybody would say, the closer you get to the singularity, for sure, you have to include quantum mechanics. You just can’t consistently talk about magnifying such small scales, having such enormous ruptures and curvatures and energy scales and not include quantum mechanics, that that’s just inconsistent with the world as we understand it. So you’ve described the brain breaking idea that a black hole is not so much as super dense matter as it’s sometimes described, but it’s more akin to a region of spacetime, but even more so just nothing. It’s nothing. That’s the thing you seem to like to say.…
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