Neil Turok

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Neil Turok: Black Hole Interiors Are Antimatter Mirrors (New Theory) · 22 Apr 2025 podcast

I think the whole field sort of went haywire.

We shouldn't overcomplicate physics.

Uh what we are explaining is a mathematical solution to Einstein's equations, um which describes black holes rather differently than the conventionally accepted uh solution to Einstein equations.

So uh we was i it was motivated by our work in cosmology.

Where we notice that the Big Bang singularity

Is actually not all that singular.

And we used a technique called analytic continuation, which is a mathematical method relating to complex numbers, a very powerful, very beautiful method, which often works in physics, and we use that method to traverse the Big Bang singularity and find a mirror universe on the other side.

Uh so uh one of my PhD students was bold enough to say, uh, why not try this for black holes?

And I myself hadn't attempted it because I thought black holes are a lot more complicated.

But sure enough, he was able to get the same method to work for a black hole.

And strangely enough, it gave an alternative a new and alternative interpretation of black holes themselves.

So in essence, the point is that the black hole horizon

is a rather special surface in space time.

You should think about it as a two dimensional surface surface enclosing the black hole.

But if somebody inside emits a signal, you know, we will never, ever receive it.

Um and so you may wonder, is the inside real if we can never receive a signal from the inside?

Um now the conventional interpretation is that it is real.

And that leads to all kinds of paradoxes.

If you've if something falls into a black hole, the information it carries is lost and can never be received outside.

Uh and the paradox gets even worse if the black hole evaporates quantum mechanically, as Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking described, uh, which is widely accepted that black holes will evaporate it will evaporate.

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