Monday 16th December - 06:00 PM GMT
Headline Debate: White Holes: Fact or Fantasy?
Can we go beyond the horizon of the universe?
Event Date: TODAY!
Events Start: 17:20 GMT
Science faces profound mysteries. We've observed black holes, but have no idea what happens inside them. About 27% of the universe consists of dark matter, but we can't see it and its origins remain unknown.
Recently thinkers have posited a new region of space-time that may account for these puzzles. An object that spits matter out, rather than sucking it in. A white hole. But what are they? And how can we know they exist?
Pioneer of 'loop quantum gravity' and international best-selling author Carlo Rovelli joins IAI Live for an evening of debate and discovery, for the first time, to defend his controversial view that white holes exist.
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Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Creator of Closer To Truth
Laura Mersini-Houghton
Leading theoretical physicist
Laura Mersini-Houghton is Professor of Physics at the University of North Carolina. Her work focuses on the origin of the universe and the multiverse, and has been widely covered by the New Scientist, the Discovery Channel and the BBC.
Roger Penrose
Nobel Prize-Winner
Roger Penrose is a world-renowned mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is best known for his work on general relativity and sharing the Wolf Prize for Physics with Stephen Hawking for his work on black holes. Additionally, he is author of The Road to Reality, Cycles of Time and Shadows of the Mind.
Carlo Rovelli
Pioneering physicist
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who works mainly in the field of Quantum Gravity. Carlo's popular science book Seven Briefs Lessons on Physics has been translated into 41 languages and sold over one million copies, and he has authored other best-selling books including Reality Is Not What It Seems (2015) and The Order of Time (2018). In 2019 he was named one of the 100 most influential thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.
Rovelli has developed the theory of loop quantum gravity and made significant contributions to the field of relational quantum mechanics. He has also written extensively about the history and philosophy of science.