Is spacetime a material?

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Tarek Anous (Queen Mary University of London)
• Wednesday 31 May 2023, 14:00-15:00
• Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Prahar Mitra.

In this colloquium, I will argue against “top down” approaches to spacetime in favor of something more playful. When a condensed matter theorists hears of an interesting experimental phenomenon, for example the quantization of the Hall resistance in a 2d sample, their goal is to find a crude model that explains it. I will present several examples where thinking of Einstein’s equations as “the lab” gives us “experimental” phenomena that demand a simple explanation. Rather than search for UV complete theories, perhaps it would be fun to try and find crude models for the observed phenomena?

This talk is part of the Theoretical Physics Colloquium series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• All CMS events
• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email)
• CMS Events
• Cambridge Astronomy Talks
• Cosmology lists
• Cosmology, Astrophysics and General Relativity
• DAMTP info aggregator
• HEP web page aggregator
• Interested Talks
• Kavli Institute for Cosmology Talk Lists
• Priscilla
• Theoretical Physics Colloquium
• bld31

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.