Topic: General relativity

This talk is about the proposal that (1) quantum states that violate the momentum and Hamiltonian constraints represent instances of time, and (2) time evolution corresponds to the gradual collapse of an initial state toward a diffeomorphism-invariant state, driven by stochastic fluctuations of the lapse and shift. During the wavefunction collapse, the scale factor increases monotonically and thus acts as a clock. Scalar, vector, and tensor gravitons arise as physical excitations. In the long-time limit, the tensor gravitons exhibit emergent unitary dynamics, while the extra modes are damped b

Vitor Cardoso discusses how observations and theory are changing black-hole physics. The conversation covers Hawking radiation, general relativity, gravitational-wave observations and the Event Horizon Telescope, asking what these measurements reveal about black holes and what future observatories could test.