Skip to content
Saturons episode artwork

EPISODE · Mar 28, 2021

Saturons

from ASC Workshops · host Gia Dvali

We introduce the concept of saturons, systems that saturate a certain bound on entropy, which is imposed by S-matrix and unitarity. Such objects share certain niversal properties (e.g., the area-law of entropy, near-thermal emission, inner entanglement, ...) that goes well beyond gravity. We give an example from QCD. We show that black holes and de Sitter are saturons and this determines their physical properties such as their entanglement curves. Both exhibit anomalous quantum break-time which for de Sitter is deadly. Through this mechanism, the S-matrix formulation of quantum gravity/string theory excludes de Sitter vacua.

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Mar 28, 2021

Embed this episode

Ready to play

Saturons

0:00 0:00

No transcript for this episode yet

We transcribe on demand. Request one and we'll notify you when it's ready — usually under 10 minutes.

No similar episodes found.

No similar podcasts found.

Frequently Asked Questions

When was this ASC Workshops episode published?

This episode was published on March 28, 2021.

Can I download this ASC Workshops episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.
URL copied to clipboard!