White Holes: Echoes of a Horizon
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What if falling into a black hole isn’t the end of the story? Einstein’s theory of gravity famously allows a dying star to collapse into a black hole: an inescapable, one-way trapdoor in our universe. We have now observed many such trapdoors. Less well known is that Einstein’s theory also predicts the existence of white holes: mysterious, never-observed counterparts to black holes, which you can leave but never enter.
Join us on a journey through spacetime, where we’ll imagine falling into these strange objects and let Einstein’s theory draw maps that guide our fate. Along the way, we’ll learn how to read these maps (no math required) and meet the scientists who argued, erred, and changed their minds to draw them. After all, if we did fall into a black hole, what if one of these could show us a way out?
Join us on a journey through spacetime, where we’ll imagine falling into these strange objects and let Einstein’s theory draw maps that guide our fate. Along the way, we’ll learn how to read these maps (no math required) and meet the scientists who argued, erred, and changed their minds to draw them. After all, if we did fall into a black hole, what if one of these could show us a way out?
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