26–31 Aug 2007
Bled, Slovenia
Europe/Zurich timezone

Gravitational Limitations on space and time measurements and fundamental loss of coherence in General Relativity

29 Aug 2007, 09:00
45m
Bled, Slovenia

Bled, Slovenia

Grand Hotel Toplice at Lake Bled Cesta svobode 12 4260 Bled, Slovenia

Speaker

Prof. Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University)

Description

There are gravitational limitations on how accurately one can measure space and time. As a consequence of these limitations, when one formulates quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in terms of real measuring rods and clocks the resulting theory is not unitary. This has implications for the black hole information puzzle and may in a not too distant future lead to testable experiments.

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