Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9742846 | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics | 2005 | 11 Pages |
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.
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Authors
Rafael D. Sorkin,