The Scaling Entropy-Area Thermodynamics and the Emergence of Quantum Gravity

Olivier Denis

doi:10.59973/ipil.126

Authors

Olivier Denis Information Physics Institute, Gosport, Hampshire, United Kingdom

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59973/ipil.126

Keywords:

Quantum gravity, Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, Bekenstein bound, von Neumann entropy, Hawking radiation, Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture, Surface gravity, Gravitational fine-grained entropy, Entropic information theory, Scaling Entropy-Area Thermodynamic System

Abstract

This article introduces the “Scaling Entropy-Area Thermodynamics” (SEAT), a unified framework
claiming that all gravitational systems’ entropy scales with their surface, rather their volume, allowing gravity to be explained as an emergent phenomenon. This approach reveals how entropy, information, spacetime geometry and quantum mechanics are intrinsically linked fromnotions such as von Neumann entropy, Bekenstein bound and Ryu-Takayanagi conjecture. With the help of new entropy formulations involving surface gravity, SEAT illustrates how gravitational entropy explains gravitational systems from structured information at the boundary surface. SEAT not only solves the black hole information paradox by suggesting that they evolve, as their entropy decrease, towards order, with information preserved in a progressively organized manner and emitted through the entangled Hawking radiation, but, offers by the extending of the “entropy-area” relation to all gravitational systems, to comprehend, in a unified approach, the emergent nature of gravity from how information is encoded and organized on the boundary surface.

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