PIRSA ID: 22020048
Series:
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s): Quantum Fields and Strings
End date: 2022-02-01
Speaker(s): Jan de Boer University of Amsterdam
Several puzzles and issues in quantum gravity are related to the question of what type of high-energy information is actually available to low-energy observers. In this talk I will try to argue that the best description available to a low-energy observer is probably of a statistical nature. Such a statistical description naturally connects to e.g. the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, and wormholes and the apparent lack of factorization. I will describe this statistical picture and the evidence we have for it, and what we could possibly learn from it. Partially based on work in progress.
Zoom Link: https://pitp.zoom.us/j/96646337719?pwd=UVRKN3Y4Q05xNXk1VExOenYwSFZvZz09