Ginestra Bianconi

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Ginestra Bianconi: The Physicist Who (Unexpectedly) Derived Gravity From Entropy · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

There is this information theory and statistical mechanics understanding of the interplane between matter and geometry.

Respect to other, you know, approach using entropy, of course, the approach is fully statistical mechanics.

So it embraces the microscopic degree of freedom.

While, you know, in approaches that are based on horizon entropy,

They are typically thermodynamics in spirit.

So they start with the area law, which is, of course, fundamental.

But the area law, to my understanding, is mostly coming from a thermodynamics description of gravity.

While I think it is important to have a microscopic description.

And also in this respect, you know, people that try to do kind of...

entropic approach to gravity, sometimes they are coming from the perspective of theoretical physics and they can try to be sympathetic with, you know, people that do research in statistical mechanics or, you know, condensed matter, which is, of course, seen as, you know, very applied.

But actually, I'm coming from, you know,

complexity theory, natural theory, but I have a very solid statistical mechanics understanding.

And from my perspective, actually, statistical mechanics and field theory are the same thing, right?

It's just changing an eye with...

with the, you know, in the big rotation, right?

So statistical mechanics is a fundamental theory, actually.

And it is possible to write an action that is a field theory action and at the same time, a statistical physics action.

It's not that if you want to go towards statistical physics, you need to go toward, you know, soft matter or things like that.

So thermodynamics has been fundamental and, you know, it arise from the study of ethan genes.

So practically the efficiency of ethan genes, it arise from very practical consideration during the industrial revolution.

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