Black holes as harbingers of new gravitational physics - a podcast by Michael Haack

The apparent crisis of black holes inconsistency with foundational physical principles provides a sharp focus for the conflict between quantum mechanics and classical spacetime. Various resolutions have
been proposed; a very plausible one is that small interactions can transfer sufficient information between the black hole and outgoing radiation, with a quantum enhancement from the enormous number of black hole states. Such interactions must however violate conventional notions of locality, perhaps as a symptom of the more basic subtlety of information localization in quantum gravity, and hinting at aspects of the fundamental structure of quantum gravity. An intriguing question is whether further clues can be found from new observational windows on black holes.

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