07 Feb 2025
Seminars and colloquia
Time
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Venue
Lindemann Lecture Theatre
Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Speaker(s)
Professor Sean Carroll, Johns Hopkins University
Seminar series
Theoretical physics colloquia
For more information contact
Joy Blanchard at tpadmin@physics.ox.ac.uk
From Quantum Mechanics to Spacetime
Abstract: Nine decades in, the foundations of quantum mechanics remain mysterious. Meanwhile, modern physicists puzzle over how to reconcile quantum mechanics with gravity. I will suggest that these problems are related, and that a promising strategy suggests itself: rather than "quantizing gravity," we should look for gravity within quantum mechanics. This approach has interesting consequences for how we think about the nature of space and time.