Entropy Revisited: the Plausible Role of Gravitation
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
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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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9905403,
title = {Entropy Revisited: the Plausible Role of Gravitation},
author = {Eshel Ben-Jacob and Ziv Hermon and Alexsander Shnirman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9905403},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages