Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Cumrun Vafa, together with fellow world-renowned string theorist Andrew Strominger, developed a new way to calculate black hole entropy in the language of string theory. Follow Vafa as he guides you through some of the more incredible things we have learned since string theory’s inception. #WorldSciU

This lecture was recorded on May 31, 2015 at the World Science Festival in New York City.

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What is Fundamental? - 00:00:05

Duality Frames - 00:11:12

Basics of Space - 00:22:07

Quantum Geometry - 00:31:08

Entropy - 00:42:52

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