How Far does the Analogy Between Causal Horizon-Induced Thermalization with the Standard Heat Bath Situation go?

How far does the analogy between causal horizon - induced thermalization with the standard heat bath situation go ?

After a short presentation of KMS states and modular theory as the unifying description of thermalizing systems we propose the absence of transverse vacuum fluctuations in the holographic projections as the principle reason for an area behavior (the transverse area) of localization entropy as opposed to the volume dependence of ordinary heat bath entropy. Thermalization through causal localizat...

Gravitational and Schwinger model anomalies : how far can the analogy go ?

We describe the most general treatment of all anomalies both for chiral and massless Dirac fermions, in two-dimensional gravity. It is shown that for this purpose two regularization dependent parameters are present in the effective action. Analogy to the Schwinger model is displayed corresponding to a specific choice of the second parameter, thus showing that the gravitational model contains an...

The Standard Model: how far can it go and how can we tell?

The Standard Model of particle physics encapsulates our current best understanding of physics at the smallest distances and highest energies. It incorporates quantum electrodynamics (the quantized version of Maxwell's electromagnetism) and the weak and strong interactions, and has survived unmodified for decades, save for the inclusion of non-zero neutrino masses after the observation of neutri...

Darwin’s Analogy Between Artificial and Natural Selection: How Does it Go?

The analogy Darwin drew between artificial and natural selection in On the Origin of Species has a detailed structure that has not been appreciated. In Darwin’s analogy, the kind of artificial selection called Methodical selection is analogous to the principle of divergence in nature, and the kind of artificial selection called Unconscious selection is analogous to the principle of extinction i...

The emergency room admission: how far does the "open door" go?