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SUMMARY:Entanglement: The Hooks that Hold Space Together
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Leonard Susskind\, Stanford University\nHosted by: La
	wrence Sulak\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/internal//files/get/042815-suss
	kind.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nAbstract:\n
	\nA paradigm change is taking place which cuts across several fields of the
	oretical physics and mathematics. It is part of a broader "information revo
	lution" in science; more specifically it is the quantum-information revolut
	ion. It is profoundly influencing physics\, from condensed matter theory\, 
	to quantum gravity and the theory of black holes.The idea of quantizing gra
	vity is an old one but it is probably not the right one. Recent development
	s strongly suggest that John Wheeler was right when he claimed that gravity
	 and quantum mechanics are so closely joined at the hip\, that it does not 
	make sense to think of one without the other. This was Wheeler's "it-from-b
	it" philosophy. I will describe some of the most interesting aspects of the
	 paradigm shift from a quantum field theory of gravity to a quantum informa
	tion theory of gravity. Quantum Entanglement--Einstein's "spooky action at 
	a distance"--plays a key role.
LOCATION:SCI 109\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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