Abstract: 

 

Recent work on quantum gravity has revealed deep connections with subjects like
quantum information, statistical physics and quantum chaos. In particular, low-energy effective
field theories that include gravity turn out to have more access to high-energy degrees of freedom
than their non-gravitational Wilsonian counterparts. While precise microscopic high-energy information
is inaccessible, certain statistical high-energy information does manifest itself in an interesting way at low
energies. I will describe some recent work trying to make this connection more precise, and explain how
it connects to issues like wormholes and averaging over theories.