PERIMETER INSTITUTE RECORDED SEMINAR ARCHIVE
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Ten Theses on Black Hole Entropy Speaker(s): Rafael Sorkin
Abstract: I present a viewpoint on black hole thermodynamics according to which the entropy: derives from horizon 'degrees of freedom''; is finite because the deep structure of spacetime is discrete; is ``objective'' thanks to the distinguished coarse graining provided by the horizon; and obeys the second law of thermodynamics precisely because the effective dynamics of the exterior region is not unitary.
Date: 23/01/2009 - 9:00 am
Collection: Black Holes and Quantum Physics - 2009
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