Limit of General Relativity with James Owen Weatherall

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Recorded: 2022/05/19 Released: 2022/06/26

Jim talks to James Owen Weatherall of the University of California, Irvine about the conditions in which general relativity is likely to break down and a new theory is likely to be required.
------------------------------------------- Notes:

1. The article that we discussed in this program:

• Weatherall, J.O., "Where Does General Relativity Break Down?" (2022) [arXiv]

2. Other articles mentioned in this program:

• Defermos, M. and Luk, J., “The Interior of Dynamical Black Holes I: The C⁰ Stability of the Kerr Cauchy Horizon.” Pure Appl. Analysis 1, 263 (2019). [arXiv]

3. Related Episodes of Physics Frontiers:

• Physics Frontiers 62: Deformed Special Relativity.
• Physics Frontiers 57: Quantum Effects in Gravity Waves
• Physics Frontiers 53: The Positive Energy Theorem
• Physics Frontiers 45: Loop Quantum Gravity
• Physics Frontiers 38: Why Is Space-Time Four Dimensional?
• Physics Frontiers 27: The Gravitational Equivalence Principles
• Physics Frontiers 17: The Physics of Time Travel

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