Juan Maldacena is a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study whose 1997 paper remains the most cited in the history of theoretical physics.We cover: -why wormholes and quantum entanglement may be the same thing-what actually happens to information when you throw something into a black hole-the reason Hawking radiation accidentally gave cosmologists the equation that explains why the universe has structure-whether science-fiction wormholes are ruled out by the laws of physics-the one unsolved problem Juan says matters more than black holes.The most important problem in quantum gravity is understanding the beginning of the Big Bang — not black holes.TIMESTAMPS———📬 Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt🌠 Have a .edu email and live in the USA 🇺🇸? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1🎯 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon — get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating⭐ Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join📚 My books:Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpAThink Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFuFocus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9UGalileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un🌐 More:🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating✍️ Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog🎙️ Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast#intotheimpossible #briankeating #science #physics #astronomy #cosmology #podcast #universeLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices