#468 – Janna Levin: Black Holes, Wormholes, Aliens, Paradoxes & Extra Dimensions

The following is a conversation with Jana Levin, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist specializing in black holes, cosmology of extra dimensions, topology of the universe, and gravitational waves in spacetime. She has also written some incredible books, including How the Universe Got Its Spots on the topic of the shape and the size of the universe. A madman dreams of touring machines on the topic of genius, madness, and the limits of knowledge, black hole blues and other songs from outer space, on the topic of LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves, and black hole survival guide on the all about black holes. This was a fun and fascinating conversation.

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