Entropy generation in quantum gravity

The area entropy and the related Hawking temperature in the presence of event horizons are rederived from the Wheeler-De Witt equation in a formulation of quantum physics which does not require the notion of time. The entropy arises from a tunneling of the metric field and quantifies the information lost in its quantum fluctuations.

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