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Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein computed the entropy of a great void in the 1970s, however it took physicists previously to find out the quantum results that make the formula work
By Leah Crane
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An artist’s visualisation of a great void
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We lastly comprehend how great voids get their entropy. Physicists have actually been having a hard time to figure this out because the early 1970s, when Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein determined just how much entropy, or condition, ought to exist in a great void. Now, with a little aid from quantum mechanics, scientists might have lastly resolved the issue.
“For a long period of time, individuals have actually believed that to fix this issue, you need to do all sort of elegant things in string theory. What we reveal is …
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