Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Princeton Mathematician: Wormholes Can’t Survive Einstein’s Math
56 minutes Posted Nov 3, 2026 at 4:11 pm.
Are wormholes real?
What happens at an event horizon
God does not know about coordinates
What Maldacena would say about wormholes
Why extremal black holes matter
Einstein and the 1919 eclipse
Terry Tao and Fermat's Last Theorem
Can universities be reformed?
What to tell a 19-year-old
Kip Thorne and the movies
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A Princeton mathematician says wormholes cannot survive Einstein's equations, and the AI apocalypse is absurd. A solution that vanishes under a small nudge is a ghost, not physics.
Sergiu Klainerman is a mathematician at Princeton University. With Demetrios Christodoulou, he proved that empty spacetime is stable.
We cover: What makes a solution of Einstein's equations physical, why slowly rotating black holes pass the stability test and wormholes fail it, why shocks form no matter how small the perturbation, whether AI can reproduce a landmark proof, and why he calls the AI singularity absurd.
Mathematics is discovered, not invented.
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