Lee's Fest: Quantum Gravity and the Nature of Time

Gravitational collapse, shock waves and white holes

Jun 3, 2025, 9:15 a.m.

15m

PI/3-394 - Skyroom (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Conference Talk

Speaker

Viqar Husain (University of New Brunswick)

Description

I will describe an effective quantum gravity model for dust collapse that predicts a shock wave as the end point of a black hole, and smooth metrics for black hole to white hole transitions.

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