On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 12:44:57PM -0800, meekerdb wrote: > > Layzer of course didn't know about the holographic principle, which > implies that the maximum possible entropy increases in proportion to > the surface area of the Hubble sphere rather than the volume. Vic > Stenger has noted that if you assume the degrees of freedom for the > vacuum are proportional to this area (in Planck units) you get the > right order of magnitude for the energy density of the cosmological > constant. >
Wow! That's quite something. Did Vic ever write this up somewhere? Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
