

The Equation That Changed How Physicists Think About Reality | Juan Maldacena Timestamps: 00:00 The claim Einstein wrote in 1935 and missed 01:15 The most-cited physicist alive walks into UC San Diego 03:25 What would shock Einstein most about modern physics 07:45 The holographic principle — what it actually means 09:20 Throw a laptop into a black hole. Now what 11:00 General relativity says lost. Quantum mechanics says preserved. 12:25 The problem Juan wants to solve before he dies 13:50 Why real black holes don't emit measurable Hawking radiation 15:25 How black hole math accidentally explained why the universe has structure 17:00 Could primordial black holes be dark matter? Juan is skeptical. 18:30 Why a partition function went imaginary — and what it cost to fix 21:15 Why imaginary numbers keep being right about reality 25:00 How AdS/CFT got its name — and why physicists did the Macarena 27:05 We don't live in AdS space. Why does it matter 29:00 Earth-sized wormholes are allowed. Faster-than-light ones aren't. 32:10 Could AI have helped Einstein in 1913? 33:00 Can a working physicist also believe in God? Juan answers.


