Geneva University
Ecole de physique - Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire
24, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 1211 GENEVE 4 Tél: (022) 379 62 73 Fax: (022) 379 69 92
Monday 28 April 2008
PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
at 17.00 – Stückelberg Auditorium
Gravity : an Emergent Perspective
by Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan, Pune University Dean, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India
I will motivate and describe a novel perspective in which gravity arises as an emergent phenomenon, somewhat like elasticity. This perspective throws light on several issues which are somewhat of a mystery in the conventional approach. Moreover it provides new insights on the dark energy problem. In fact, I will show that it is necessary to have such an alternative perspective in order to solve the cosmological constant problem.
Information:
http://theory.physics.unige.ch/~fiteo/seminars/COL/collist.html