Minnowbrook Symposium
Ted Jacobson
Entropy and Gravity: horizons, entanglement and the holographic bound

This talk is intended to provide an overview of some results and open questions concerning the meaning of black hole entropy and the nature of the holographic bound on the entropy contained within a surface of given area. In particular I will address issues such as the role of internal states, entanglement, species independence, renormalization of G, the hoop conjecture, the second law, and the thermodynamic derivation of the Einstein equation from the proportionality of area and entropy.


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