February 28, 2020 to March 31, 2021
On Zoom
Europe/Rome timezone

Magnetic black holes and traversable wormholes

Aug 29, 2020, 4:00 PM
1h
On Zoom

On Zoom

https://cern.zoom.us/j/5876144043

Speaker

Prof. Juan Maldacena (IAS)

Description

We will discuss the physics of magnetically charged black holes. If we have charged massless fermions, there is a large number of effectively two-dimensional fields that give rise to interesting effects. An interesting effect is that they lead to a controllable construction of traversable wormholes without the addition of exotic matter. For the matter of the Standard Model, these wormholes are microscopic. On the other hand, with matter described by a suitable version of the Randall-Sundrum model, they could be traversed by a human.

https://inspirehep.net/literature/1811920
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1790955
https://inspirehep.net/literature/1681998

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