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经典引力对时空量子结构的启示

Lessons from Classical Gravity about the Quantum Structure of Spacetime

T. Padmanabhan

摘要:

我提出的理论证据表明,重力是一个新兴的现象,如气体动力学或弹性与引力场方程具有相同的地位,说,流体动力学/弹性方程。这种范式将包括爱因斯坦理论在内的广泛的引力理论视为描述“时空原子”的统计力学的热力学极限。这种范式的证据隐藏在引力理论的几个经典特征中,并且只依赖于一个量子力学输入,即视界的戴维斯-安鲁温度的存在。我讨论了这种方法的几个概念成分。

英文摘要:

I present the theoretical evidence which suggests that gravity is an emergent phenomenon like gas dynamics or elasticity with the gravitational field equations having the same status as, say, the equations of fluid dynamics/elasticity. This paradigm views a wide class of gravitational theories - including Einstein's theory - as describing the thermodynamic limit of the statistical mechanics of "atoms of spacetime". The evidence for this paradigm is hidden in several classical features of the gravitational theories and depends on just one quantum mechanical input, viz. the existence of Davies-Unruh temperature of horizons. I discuss several conceptual ingredients of this approach.

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