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. / 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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/16920 |
| Date | 06 February 2015 |
| Creators | Moolman, Simon |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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