What can we learn from Analogue Experiments? - a podcast by MCMP Team

Karim Thebault (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on "Why trust a Theory?" (7-9 December, 2015) titled "What can we learn from Analogue Experiments?". Abstract: In 1981 Unruh proposed that fluid mechanical experiments could be used to probe key aspects of the quantum phenomenology of black holes. In particular, he claimed that an analogue to Hawking radiation could be created within a fluid mechanical 'dumb hole'. Since then an entire sub-field of 'analogue gravity' has been created. In 2014 Steinhauer reported the experimental observation of Hawking radiation within a Bose-Einstein condensate dumb hole. What can we learn from such analogue experiments? In particular, can they provide confirmation of novel phenomena such as black hole Hawking radiation?

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