Dear All,
This coming Monday, we are grateful to have Professor Harvey Reall deliver a highly attractive talk about black holes, Monday 10 February, 7pm at MR2, CMS. And, do hang around for pizza and port/juice after the talk!
Title: What happens if you fall into a black hole?
Speaker: Professor Harvey Reall
Abstract: The usual answer to this question is “you get turned into spaghetti”. But this only applies to the simplest kind of black hole – one which is not rotating. With rotation, the answer is less clear, with some calculations indicating that it might be possible to escape destruction inside the hole, at least according to classical General Relativity. Recent work suggests that quantum effects might play an important role in destroying observers who fall into certain types of black holes. I’ll attempt to give a simple explanation of all of this.
Date: Monday, 10 February
Time: 7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences
Abstract: The usual answer to this question is “you get turned into spaghetti”. But this only applies to the simplest kind of black hole – one which is not rotating. With rotation, the answer is less clear, with some calculations indicating that it might be possible to escape destruction inside the hole, at least according to classical General Relativity. Recent work suggests that quantum effects might play an important role in destroying observers who fall into certain types of black holes. I’ll attempt to give a simple explanation of all of this.
Date: Monday, 10 February
Time: 7pm
Location: MR2, Centre of Mathematical Sciences