Fluctuation and inertia
Abstract
How the principle of inertia survives quantum fluctuations is an interesting question. Smolin has proposed a hypothesis that quantum fluctuations are in fact real statistical fluctuations. In this work, combining the works on Hawking-Unruh radiation and Jacobson's idea in his thermodynamics derivation of Einstein equation, we confirmed Smolin's guess: the quantum fluctuations leading to Hawking-Unruh radiation, satisfying the fluctuation theorem, are statistical fluctuations. Therefore, inertia is found to be a result of the second law of thermodynamics: the principle of entropy increases has the tendency to eliminate the effects of fluctuations and makes accelerated observers express inertia force.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Physics B
- Pub Date:
- January 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2019.114873
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1801.10018
- Bibcode:
- 2020NuPhB.95014873S
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 5 pages