Analogie
| Thesis title in Czech: | Analogie |
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| Thesis title in English: | Analogies |
| English key words: | Corresponding physical systems; Artificial gravity and black holes |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2017/2018 |
| Thesis type: | project |
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| Department: | Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics (32-UCJF) |
| Supervisor: | prof. Alfredo Iorio, Ph.D. |
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| Guidelines |
| The student needs to
- have the inclination to venture into philosophical questions - have the ability to think in a interdisciplinary approach - be willing to work towards making a catalogue of known results |
| References |
| Supervisor's notes
R. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II Ch. 12: Electrostatic Analogs The web, the ArXiv, ScholarPedia |
| Preliminary scope of work |
| In a famous lecture Feynman presented an argument that became a cornerstone of a certain approach to physics, that is sometimes referred to ''Analogues''. The argument is summarized by the famous motto ''The same equations have the same solutions!''. The Analogues have by now a long and well established tradition, especially in the field of black hole physics. The reason is the difficulty (or impossibility) of testing models of black hole physics directly, compared to a relative simplicity of testing these models indirectly on corresponding systems. The student will study the original lecture of Feynman, reprinted in the Feynman Lectures of Physics, understanding and describing in detail all the analogies (and differences) reported there for various physical systems. She/he will then also explore the literature in order to give as comprehensible and updated as possible a list of names of existing analogues of black hole physics. |