In what is known as the "AdS/CFT correspondence" or "holography", it is conjectured/believed (based on many reasonable physical arguments) that a condensed matt

In what is known as the "AdS/CFT correspondence" or "holography", it is conjectured/believed (based on many reasonable physical arguments) that a condensed matter system will have an equivalent description in terms of a gravitational system in one higher dimension. In those models, the temperature of the system in the lab typically corresponds to the Hawking temperature of the black hole in the higher dimensional gravitational system. (That is where my knowledge of the subject stops.) For thos who seek technical details, Hartnoll has a short summary (2009) of the formalism on which the 2010 result is based: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3553 https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.3553 @dzdt: A little too hasty to judge don't you think? (ref comment quoted below) > I think it is bad journalism, intended to boggle not enlighten [...] I don't know anything about this area to guess whether there is really a black hole analogy [...] But I am confident it isn't a useful analogy to make anything more clear!