{"id":1233,"date":"2023-04-26T06:28:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T04:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2023-04-14T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T11:02:43","slug":"the-2022-oppenheimer-lecture-the-quantum-origins-of-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/26\/the-2022-oppenheimer-lecture-the-quantum-origins-of-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"THE 2022 OPPENHEIMER LECTURE: THE QUANTUM ORIGINS OF GRAVITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_65774\"  width=\"840\" height=\"472\"  data-origwidth=\"840\" data-origheight=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-OkwGDKoY0o?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It was once thought that gravity and quantum mechanics were inconsistent with one another. Instead, we are discovering that they are so closely connected that one can almost say they are the same thing. Professor Susskind will explain how this view came into being over the last two decades, and illustrate how a number of gravitational phenomena have their roots in the ordinary principles of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard Susskind is an American physicist, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics, and quantum cosmology.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B00IFTT8GA&amp;preview=inline&amp;linkCode=kpe&amp;ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_YSRCK36GA73AXJ0HENT0\" width=\"336\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was once thought that gravity and quantum mechanics were inconsistent with one another. Instead, we are discovering that they are so closely connected that one can almost say they are the same thing. Professor Susskind will explain how this view came into being over the last two decades, and illustrate how a number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/26\/the-2022-oppenheimer-lecture-the-quantum-origins-of-gravity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE 2022 OPPENHEIMER LECTURE: THE QUANTUM ORIGINS OF GRAVITY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,87,80,95],"tags":[65,51,85,78,7,81,109],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-books","category-lectures","category-quantum-physics","category-talks","tag-unreality","tag-books","tag-cosmology","tag-lectures","tag-ontology","tag-quantum-physics","tag-talks","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1231,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/04\/25\/sean-carroll-the-passage-of-time-the-meaning-of-life\/","url_meta":{"origin":1233,"position":0},"title":"Sean Carroll | The Passage of Time &#038; the Meaning of Life","author":"admin","date":"April 25, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/7BH6XCRZad8?feature=share What is time? 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