BIMSA > Joint HEP-TH Seminar Gravity ⇋Thermodynamics
Gravity ⇋Thermodynamics
Organizers
Hongfei Shu , Rui-Dong Zhu , Hao Zou
Speaker
M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari
Time
Thursday, June 30, 2022 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Venue
1129B
Online
Zoom 361 038 6975 (BIMSA)
Abstract
Last 50 years' developments have revealed deep relations between thermodynamics and gravity as formulated in Einstein general relativity, despite their apparent differences. These relations seem so fundamental and deep that they have prompted the idea that they may be telling us about the very nature of gravity. In this talk I review these salient features and discuss recent developments in the connection between gravity and thermodynamics. In particular, I describe how general covariance ingravity theories leads to laws of thermodynamics when we consider gravity on spacetimes with null boundaries.