The emergence of gravitational spaces
| dc.contributor.author | Moolman, Simon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-06T11:27:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-02-06T11:27:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-02-06 | |
| dc.description | A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. 01 September 2014. | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this thesis I explore the evidence for whether gravity is an emergent phenomenon. I provide a review of black hole thermodynamics and demonstrate how it provides evidence that gravity is an emergent phe- nomenon. In addition I provide a review of Jacobson's calculation which shows how the Einstein eld equations can be interpreted as a thermo- dynamic equation of state. I then use Jacobson's work and the Seiberg- Witten map to derive a new gravitational equation of state which shows what gravity on a non-commutative manifold would look like. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16920 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Gravity. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Thermodynamics. | |
| dc.title | The emergence of gravitational spaces | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |