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Day 2
Greg Egan's Incandescence: Tidal forces, Schwarzschild metric and Killing's theorem
A talk about the concept of Greg Egan's science fiction novel Schild's Incandescence as provided by his website.
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Greg Egan's Incandescence is a 2008 science-fiction novel featuring many interesting concepts from general relativity. A lot is explained on his website gregegan.net on which this talk is based on. It doesn't include spoilers for the novel besides a rough introduction in the central topics from the first chapters, but will go over all plenty of concepts explored in it.

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