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Entropy revisited: the plausible role of gravitation

✍ Scribed by Eshel Ben-Jacob; Ziv Hermon; Alexander Shnirman

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
46 KB
Volume
256
Category
Article
ISSN
0375-9601

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✦ Synopsis

We first present open questions related to the foundations of thermodynamics and statistical physics. We then argue that in principle one can not have ''closed systems'', and that a universal background should exist. We propose that the gravitational field plays this role, due to its vanishing energy-momentum tensor. This leads to a new possible picture, in which entropy and irreversibility in macroscopic systems emerge from their coupling to the background gravitational field.

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