On 7/20/10, Robert Munafo <mrob27@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:34, Mike Stay <metaweta@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
[...]Verlinde's (~1 hour) audio & PDF slides from a lecture
that he gave. In the audio file, there are questions from the audience that are interesting. I've listened to it once & will listen to it several more times.
I'd appreciate a link--I haven't been able to find the video you're referring to.
The link seems to be http://pirsa.org/10050022/ For me the video has no sound, but the MP3 works and I could play both simultaneously using two different programs. Or just listen to the MP3 and try to follow along with the PDF slides. Based on the slides, it seems this lecture at least partly covers the outline of the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0785 (I also found a 2005 string theory lecture at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/audio/05-06/strings/verlinde/ for the really curious)
At times, I found the Flash (video's) audio fading badly ... Mind-expanding moment #1 --- instead of the customary hocus-pocus about what happens to an object falling through the event horizon, its information simply merges with the hologram at the surface (which expands to accommodate it). Mind-expanding moment #2 (in response to a listener who incautiously enquired how we know we are not at an event horizon) --- we _don't_ know that we are not at an event horizon. I'm suffering overload at this point --- time to take a break and start again later --- from the beginning, I think! Fred Lunnon