Sunday, February 21, 2016

gravity and quantum mechanics

hawking radiation

black hole information paradox: contrary to the thermal radiation of a black body (statistical in nature), hawking radiation (early version) contatins no information (black hole has no hair)

AdS/CFT correspondence

Trans-Planckian problem
Hawking's original calculation requires talking about quantum particles in which the wavelength becomes shorter than the Planck length near the black hole's horizon

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