The Time Machine Factory [unspeakable, speakable] on Time Travel - TMF2024

Black to White hole transitions as (forward) time machines

24 Sept 2024, 11:00

35m

Vallauri Hall (INRiM historical building, Turin)

talk Session II. Time travel and consistency

Speaker

Marios Christodoulou (Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information - Austria)

Description

I review ideas regarding the possibility that black holes can become white holes through a quantum gravity process. Indeed, an observer passing through such a region of spacetime would effectively be travelling in the far future compared to an observer far from the effect, and vice versa should a white hole become black!