IPC talk: Bekenstein's Revolutionary Legacy

Seminar

QUEST Center event

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Speaker

Raphael Bousso (Berkeley)

Date

27/03/2023 - 17:00 - 16:00Add to Calendar 2023-03-27 16:00:00 2023-03-27 17:00:00 IPC talk: Bekenstein's Revolutionary Legacy NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE (HUJI&ZOOM) Jacob Bekenstein was the first to treat black holes like material objects, allowing them to contribute to the entropy of the universe. By recognizing that Einstein’s seemingly classical theory of gravity is able to count its own quantum states and those of matter, he forged a profound relation between spacetime geometry and quantum information. Today, his insight is driving a golden age of progress. Gravity has been used to show that the universe behaves like a hologram; that information escapes from a black hole; and that what we perceive as energy density is really a change in the flow of quantum information. https://huji.zoom.us/j/82361664742?pwd=ZU84SWQyKzlRaDloWUUrVVV2SGJEZz09 Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public

Place

https://huji.zoom.us/j/82361664742?pwd=ZU84SWQyKzlRaDloWUUrVVV2SGJEZz09

Abstract

NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE (HUJI&ZOOM)

Jacob Bekenstein was the first to treat black holes like material objects, allowing them to contribute to the entropy of the universe. By recognizing that Einstein’s seemingly classical theory of gravity is able to count its own quantum states and those of matter, he forged a profound relation between spacetime geometry and quantum information.

Today, his insight is driving a golden age of progress. Gravity has been used to show that the universe behaves like a hologram; that information escapes from a black hole; and that what we perceive as energy density is really a change in the flow of quantum information.