stringy quantum gravity
Hagedorn, black holes, and Brownian motion
Most of us seem to agree that the most interesting hep-th paper today is one by Albion Lawrence and Martin Kruczenski . It's true that no one see…
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stringy quantum gravity
Quantum gravity from self-collisions of the configuration space
One of the seemingly quirky ideas that are waiting to revolutionize theoretical physics – at least your humble correspondent feels it should be the c…
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stringy quantum gravity
A universal derivation of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy from topology change, ER-EPR
I have been intrigued by topology change in quantum gravity, especially its Euclidean version, for 15 years or so. Since the beginning, I liked a ske…
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stringy quantum gravity
Amplitude for existence of spacetime points
Monica Dance proposes to replace the metric tensor with one scalar field E(x) that is not really a scalar field and that gives points a nonzero prob…
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stringy quantum gravity
Jan de Boer: pop talk on holography
Jan de Boer is an extremely serious - and a highly technical - physicist who arguably belongs to the top 10 people in the world who study and underst…
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stringy quantum gravity
Hawking radiation: pure and thermal mixed states are a micron away
I think that the recent paper by Raju and Papadodimas ( arXiv ) is the most convincing and least confusing paper about the black hole information av…
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stringy quantum gravity
Constraints from Einstein's equations as Navier-Stokes equations
In January, Andy Strominger and friends posted a very interesting paper Geometry for every solution of Navier-Stokes (TRF) Today, Andy Strominger an…
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Warren Siegel and Kiyoung Lee: ghost pyramids
Tonight, I recommend you the preprint Simpler superstring scattering by Warren Siegel and Kiyoung Lee. It is actually a followup of a 2005 prepr…
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stringy quantum gravity
Is space and time emergent? ER-EPR correspondence adds a voice
After a cold September and early October, an Indian summer finally arrived to Central Europe. Well, it's only called "Indian summer" in…
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