English

Checking the second law at cosmic scales

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-12-02 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Based on recent data about the history of the Hubble factor, it is argued that the second law of thermodynamics holds at the largest scales accessible to observation. This is consistent with previous studies of the same question.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.12298,
  title  = {Checking the second law at cosmic scales},
  author = {Narayan Banerjee and Purba Mukherjee and Diego Pavón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12298},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

11 pages, 7 sets of figures, version accepted for publication in JCAP

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