Poincare Recurrence, Zermelo's Second Law Paradox, and Probabilistic Origin in Statistical Mechanics
Statistical Mechanics
2008-03-10 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
We show that Poincare recurrence does not mean that the entropy will eventually decrease, contrary to the claim of Zermelo, and that the probabilitistic origin in statistical physics must lie in the external noise, and not the preparation of the system.
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@article{arxiv.0803.0983,
title = {Poincare Recurrence, Zermelo's Second Law Paradox, and Probabilistic Origin in Statistical Mechanics},
author = {P. D. Gujrati},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.0983},
year = {2008}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure