Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In “Come With Me Inside a Black Hole,” Rovelli explores white holes, black holes, and what we do when we do science. A New York Times bestselling author, Carlo Rovelli will guide attendees on a trip towards and into a black hole, illustrating what we know and what we do not know about these strange objects. He will show how we might then get out of a black hole, via a white hole, assuming the theory on which he works, Loop Quantum Gravity, is correct. This trip will illustrate what it is to do science, using imagination, visualization, and creativity, besides ‘cold’ math and logic.
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, known for his work on quantum gravity and the nature of time. Among his recognitions are the 1996 Xanthopoulos Award and the 2024 Lewis Thomas Prize. He is affiliated to the University of Aix-Marseille, the philosophy department and the Rotman Institute of the Western University, the Perimeter Instituteand the Santa Fe Institute for Complexity. He is member of the Institute Universitaire de France, honorary professor ofthe Beijing Normal University, Honoris Causa Laureate of the Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires, member of the Académie Internationalede Philosophie des Sciences. He promoted the Peace Dividend Initiative, involving 60 Nobel Laureates in asking for a worldwide collaborative military expenses reduction. He has written global best sellers translated in more than 40 languages. He has been included in the 2019 list of the 100 most influential “Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine and in the 2021 list of The World’s 50 Top Thinkers by Prospect magazine.
The Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture Series supports an annual lecture in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities offered through the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities. While the lecture is open to the entire University community, it is a key component of the SASAH Speakers’ Series and a vital part of our program’s curriculum.
Filmed at Western University, January 30th, 2025 as part of the Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture.
In “Come With Me Inside a Black Hole,” Rovelli explores white holes, black holes, and what we do when we do science. A New York Times bestselling author, Carlo Rovelli will guide attendees on a trip towards and into a black hole, illustrating what we know and what we do not know about these strange objects. He will show how we might then get out of a black hole, via a white hole, assuming the theory on which he works, Loop Quantum Gravity, is correct. This trip will illustrate what it is to do science, using imagination, visualization, and creativity, besides ‘cold’ math and logic.
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, known for his work on quantum gravity and the nature of time. Among his recognitions are the 1996 Xanthopoulos Award and the 2024 Lewis Thomas Prize. He is affiliated to the University of Aix-Marseille, the philosophy department and the Rotman Institute of the Western University, the Perimeter Instituteand the Santa Fe Institute for Complexity. He is member of the Institute Universitaire de France, honorary professor ofthe Beijing Normal University, Honoris Causa Laureate of the Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires, member of the Académie Internationalede Philosophie des Sciences. He promoted the Peace Dividend Initiative, involving 60 Nobel Laureates in asking for a worldwide collaborative military expenses reduction. He has written global best sellers translated in more than 40 languages. He has been included in the 2019 list of the 100 most influential “Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine and in the 2021 list of The World’s 50 Top Thinkers by Prospect magazine.
The Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture Series supports an annual lecture in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities offered through the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities. While the lecture is open to the entire University community, it is a key component of the SASAH Speakers’ Series and a vital part of our program’s curriculum.
Filmed at Western University, January 30th, 2025 as part of the Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture.
