Jacob Bekenstein: The Conservative Revolutionary

by Lars Brink, Viatcheslav F Mukhanov, Eliezer Rabinovici, Kok Khoo Phua

Overview

Jacob Bekenstein, an Israeli physicist of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, planted the seeds of a revolution of our understanding of space-time. Using conservative intuitive methods including time-old gedanken experiments, he discovered that black holes have thermodynamical properties such as entropy.Moreover, he found that their entropy was not extensive, unlike that of any other thermodynamical system considered before, but rather is proportional to the surface of their horizon. Furthermore, Bekenstein pioneered the study of black holes by focusing on their information content aspects. This led him to obtain bounds of a holographic nature on the amount of information that can be stored in a given region of space-time.This book contains a series of scientific and personal contributions by his contemporaries who recall the struggle against his ideas and then with them: the fate accompanying many revolutionary ideas. This is followed by original scientific contributions by many of the leaders of current research on black hole physics and holography. They have trodden his path and expanded it. The impact of Jacob Bekenstein's visionary ideas is just starting to be understood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811203954
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/27/2019
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.88(d)

Table of Contents

Entropy from Carnot to Bekenstein (Ted Jacobson); Developments in Black Hole Entropy (Juan Maldacena); Black Hole Microstates (Gerard 't Hooft); Bekenstein, I, and the Quantum of Black-Hole Surface Area (Andrew Strominger); Black Hole Information Revisited (Shahar Hod); Remarks on Black Hole Entropy (Valeri P Frolov); Quantum Black Holes (Viatcheslav Mukhanov); Jacob Bekenstein and the Development of Black Hole Thermodynamics (Robert M Wald); Remembering Jacob (G W Gibbons); On the Microscopic Interpretation of the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy (James M Bardeen); Jacob Bekenstein's Universe: From Black Holes to Modified Gravity (Ofer Lahav); Entropy, Gravity and Galactic Dynamics (Erik P Verlinde); Black Hole Entropy and the Bekenstein Bound (Raphael Bousso); Cosmological Implications of the Bekenstein Bound (Tom Banks & Willy Fischler); Bekenstein's Entropy Bound and Variations Thereof (Gabriele Veneziano); The Bekenstein Bound (Don N Page); MOND From A Brane-World Picture (Mordehai Milgrom); Confinement/Deconfinement and Gravity-Assisted Emergent Higgs Mechanism in Quintessential Cosmological Model (Eduardo Guendelman, Emil Nissimov and Svetlana Pacheva); The Driving of Binary Black Holes in View of LIGO and Virgo Observations (Tsvi Piran & Kenta Hotekezaka); Turbulence and Random Geometry (Yaron Oz); Sakharov's Induced Gravity and the Poincaré Gauge Theory (Masud Chaichian, Markku Oksanen and Anca Tureanu)