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Jacob Bekenstein asserts that the entropy of a black hole is proportional to its area rather than its volume. Wow.
After watching Leonard Susskind's video 'The World as a Hologram', it seems to me that he's implying that we are all black hole stuff. Perhaps we (our galaxies and their black holes) are on the inside of a parent black hole, or maybe the totality is just one super-sized two-dimensional surface made up of whatevers (strings?).
My question to you all is this:
For the stuff that makes up the visible part of our universe - or even including the stuff that's past our 'cosmic horizon' - is there any evidence that our universe's entropy and size jibe with Bekenstein's formulas?
If you're interested, here's a link to Susskind's video. At 18:24 is a discussion about Bekenstein and his entropy-area idea.
Bob
After watching Leonard Susskind's video 'The World as a Hologram', it seems to me that he's implying that we are all black hole stuff. Perhaps we (our galaxies and their black holes) are on the inside of a parent black hole, or maybe the totality is just one super-sized two-dimensional surface made up of whatevers (strings?).
My question to you all is this:
For the stuff that makes up the visible part of our universe - or even including the stuff that's past our 'cosmic horizon' - is there any evidence that our universe's entropy and size jibe with Bekenstein's formulas?
If you're interested, here's a link to Susskind's video. At 18:24 is a discussion about Bekenstein and his entropy-area idea.
Bob