Cumrun Vafa, in collaboration with world-renowned string theorist Andrew Strominger, has developed a new way to calculate the entropy of black holes in the language of string theory. Follow Vafa as he walks you through some of the most incredible things we've learned since the creation of string theory. #WorldSciU

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

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0:00 – Start
What is fundamental? – 00:00:05

Images of duality – 00:11:12

Space Basics – 00:22:07

Quantum geometry – 00:31:08

Entropy – 00:42:52

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