Princeton Mathematician: Wormholes Can’t Survive Einstein’s Math

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.

CHAPTERS

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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Princeton Mathematician: Wormholes Can’t Survive Einstein’s Math

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