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Spacetime Atoms and the Unity of Physics - Perimeter Public Lecture

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This public lecture explains how black hole thermodynamics connects gravity, spacetime, quantum matter, and thermal systems. It presents causal set theory as a proposal that spacetime is granular at extremely small scales.

Syllabus

Intro
Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics Laws
Heat
Entropy
Disorder
Energy and Heat
Black Holes
Laws of Black Hole Mechanics
Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Laws of Black Holes
The Entropy of Black Holes
Causality and Spacetime
Black Hole Entropy
The Big Deal
Brownian Motion

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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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