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MPHY 578 / IQSE Seminar Room

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Mitchell Physics Building

College Station, Texas 77843-4242

Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University.

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Understanding Schwarzschild
September 26, 2023 11:30 am (CDT) MPHY 578 / IQSE Seminar Room
Understanding Schwarzschild

Speaker: William G. Unruh (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; University of British Columbia; Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University)

Since Schwarzschild, in 1915/1916, discovered the metric that bears his name in the mathematics of Einstein's brand new theory, confusion reigned in understanding the Schwarzscild "singularity" at r=2GM/c^2. Was this some sort of matter shell? Was this a breakdown of the theory? This talk will be a historical tour of [...]

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