Brick-By-Brick: A Construction of ’t Hooft’s Brick Wall

dc.contributor.author	Gilman, Narynbek
dc.date.accessioned	2020-06-24T04:31:33Z
dc.date.available	2020-06-24T04:31:33Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	A pedagogical construction and review, aimed at the undergraduate level, are given of the brick wall model. The brick wall is a finite region just outside the event horizon of a black hole. It is introduced in order to calculate the entropy of the collapsed star. The statistical origin of the entropy is still unknown, but the brick wall model offers an elementary exercise in counting quantum field solutions to arrive at the famous entropy-area result. The brick wall is a cut-off, effectively regularizing an otherwise divergent result. The model encompasses many fields of physics, including general relativity, quantum theory and statistical mechanics. Its multidisciplinary approach hints at what a more sophisticated solution will look like to the problem of a statistical explanation of the entropy of black holes.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4796
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/	*
dc.title	Brick-By-Brick: A Construction of ’t Hooft’s Brick Wall	en_US
dc.type	Bachelor's thesis	en_US
workflow.import.source	science

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