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Why do Things Fall?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-24 v2

Abstract

This is the first of several short notes in which I will describe phenomena that illustrate GR=QM. In it I explain that the gravitational attraction that a black hole exerts on a nearby test object is a consequence of a fundamental law of quantum mechanics---the tendency for complexity to grow. It will also be shown that the Einstein bound on velocities is closely related to the quantum-chaos bound of Maldacena, Shenker, and Stanford.

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@article{arxiv.1802.01198,
  title  = {Why do Things Fall?},
  author = {Leonard Susskind},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.01198},
  year   = {2018}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure