Juan Maldacena: On Theories of Everything, Blackholes, Wormholes, Inflation, & God vs the Multiverse (#077)

  Juan Maldacena joined me to discuss his fascinating new
paper on human traversable wormholes and other topics in
fundamental physics. Join in the chat to participate! We discussed
the Multiverse, Black Holes, Wormholes, SETI, Life on Einstein
Lane, Interstellar the Movie, and even God! We chatted about his
recent paper “HUMANLY TRAVERSABLE WORMHOLES”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06618 which is based, in part, on this
earlier paper: “Traversable wormholes in four dimensions”
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04726 When you sign up for my
newsletter, I’ll send you links to download two explanatory talks
on these papers. Please join my mailing list; just click here
http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php We also discussed an
interesting economic analog to the Higgs Mechanism first elaborated
by Dr. Pia Malaney and Dr. Eric Weinstein, explaining gauge theory
and electromagnetism. See Juan’s paper “The symmetry and simplicity
of the laws of physics and the Higgs boson” here:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.6753.pdf . You will also enjoy his video
lecture based on that paper here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQF7kkWjVWM 0:00 INTRODUCTION 04:00
Black Holes and Hawking Radiation 08:00 EPR states and Black Holes
13:00 Is faster than light travel possible using Wormholes? 20:30
What happens if you fall into a Solar Mass black hole? 25:30 Is
studying wormholes a waste of money and time? 30:00 Why are there
so many theories of everything like Weinstein, Wolfram, Lisi? 37:00
Cosmic Microwave Background non-Gaussianties and inflation and the
Multiverse 44:00 Why are lower limits in physics so important?
52:00 What experiment or theory would Juan pursue if money was no
object? 59:00 What is a gauge theory and how can currency trading
in economics explain electromagnetism 1:09:10 What’s a day in the
life of a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study? 1:13:40
Juan’s Ethical Will 1:15:00 Juan on God, the Multiverse, aliens and
more! 1:18:00 What would Juan put on his monolith? Juan Martín
Maldacena (September 10, 1968 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a
theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the
School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. He
has made significant contributions to the foundations of string
theory and quantum gravity. His most famous discovery is the
AdS/CFT correspondence, a realization of the holographic principle
in string theory. Brian Keating’s most popular Youtube Videos:
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