Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas. Conditions within a black hole are so extreme, that by analyzing aspects of black holes we see space and time in an exotic environment, one that has shed important, and sometimes perplexing, new light on their fundamental nature.

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Brian Greene was a contemporary American theoretical physicist. Brian Randolph Greene is an American physicist known for his research on string theory. He is a professor of physics and mathematics at Columbia University, director of its center for theoretical physics, and the chairman of the World Science Festival, which he co-founded in 2008. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Nature — Appreciation for the natural world and our place within it
  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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