“MAGNETARS are a type of supermassive neutron star with magnetic fields 10 trillion times more powerful than your average magnet.” https://lnkd.in/ds7Kk7e View in LinkedIn
BLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS. We continue with some extensive in depth examinations of additional important work by Professor Jacob Bekenstein, a remarkable theoretical physicist, who made “who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation.” He was a student of the remarkable Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who supervised his precocious PhD. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bekenstein View in LinkedIn
IMPORTANT NEW THEORY. “Generalized second law of thermodynamics in black-hole physics, by Jacob Bekenstein. Black-hole physics mirrors thermodynamics in many respects. For example, Christodoulou has shown that the efficiencies of processes for extracting energy from a black hole are limited by their irreversibility; the most efficient processes are the "reversible" ones.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
BLACK HOLE ENTROPY. “The formal black-hole analog of the ordinary second law of thermo-dynamics (OSL), "the entropy of a closed system never decreases” is Hawking's theorem, “the surface area of a black hole never decreases.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
AREA AS ENTROPY. “We have conjectured that this last analogy is more than formal, namely, that the area of a black hole expressed in suitable units may be regarded as the black-hole entropy — entropy in the sense of information about the black-hole interior inaccessible to exterior observers.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
DERIVATIVE CONJECTURE. “Logically related is a second conjecture, the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSL): The sum of the black-hole entropy and the common (ordinary) entropy in the black-hole exterior never decreases.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
SPECIAL CASE. “The GSL is the only guise in which the second law has a chance of retaining both its validity and its usefulness for regions of the universe near black holes.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn
HIVE MIND. Mass communication “is defined as the transfer, among groups, of information that a single individual could not pass to another.” (Renowned Harvard ant entomologist EO Wilson). Equivalent to the ant collective subconscious. https://lnkd.in/dmfn9qW View in LinkedIn