Thursday seminar

Miguel Zumalacárregui Pérez, Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICC-IEEC), University of Barcelona, Marti i Franques 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

Title: Constraining Entropic Cosmology

Abstract: It has been recently proposed that gravity might be an entropic force. I will outline some connections between gravitation and thermodynamics that suggest that gravity is an emergent rather than fundamental phenomenon and present some concrete cosmological models, and study their phenomenology in the light of current astronomical data.
Reference paper: arXiv:1011.2226.

Published Feb. 3, 2011 2:58 PM - Last modified May 12, 2011 4:31 PM