Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?

May 24, 2024
15 min
Season 2024 - Episode 13: Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?

Season 2024 - Episode 13: Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics?

Can Black Holes Unify General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics? - Episode 13

Overview

Black holes are inevitable predictions of general relativity—our best theory of space, time and gravity. But they clash in multiple ways with quantum mechanics, our equally successful description of the subatomic world. 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.

Episode Information

TV Show

PBS Space Time

Season

Season 2024

Episode Number

13

Air Date

May 24, 2024

Runtime

15 minutes