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Episode 66: The Limit of General Relativity with James Owen Weatherall

Episode 66: The Limit of General Relativity with James Owen Weatherall

Update: 2022-06-26
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Jim talks with James Owen Weatherall about his work on viewing general relativity as an effective field theory and where it should give way to another theory.  General relativity does a very good job of describing the world we see in astronomical observations, but certain results, e.g. singularities, and certain limits, e.g. the Planck scale, hint that there should be another theory that supersedes it.  Jim Weatherall argues that this is in a high curvature regime.

Show Notes: http://frontiers.physicsfm.com/66 

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Episode 66: The Limit of General Relativity with James Owen Weatherall

Episode 66: The Limit of General Relativity with James Owen Weatherall

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