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In this work, we study the magnetic effects of gravity in the framework of special relativity. Imposing covariance of the gravitational force with respect to the Lorentz transformations, we show from a thought experiment that a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 R. S. Vieira , H. B. Brentan

It is argued in the literature that gravity is an emergent phenomenon and is a statistical tendency for a gravitational system to attain the maximal entropy state which maintains the holographic principle. In this paper, we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-08 Qiao-Jun Cao

The present work deals with a detailed study of universal thermodynamics in different modified gravity theories. The validity of the generalized second law of thermodynamics (GSLT) and thermodynamical equilibrium (TE) of the Universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-02 Saugata Mitra , Subhajit Saha , Subenoy Chakraborty

The present study is elaborated to investigate the validity of thermodynamical laws in a modified teleparallel gravity based on higher-order derivatives terms of torsion scalar. For this purpose, we consider spatially flat FRW model filled…

General Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Saira Waheed , M. Zubair

This paper has been withdrawn by the author after further work showed the proposed theoretical approach cannot fit planetary perihelion precession data. As presented, the theory doesn't fit gravitational light deflection by the sun either,…

General Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

Over the last century Bohr van Leuween theorem attracted the notice of physicists. The theorem states about the absence of magnetization in classical systems in thermal equilibrium. In this paper, we discuss about fluctuations of magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-07 P. S. Pal , Arnab Saha , A. M. Jayannavar

Motivated by the entropy-functional formulation of emergent gravity, in which spacetime is endowed with a thermodynamic entropy that, upon extremization, yields the Einstein field equations, we reformulate the onset of a neutron star as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Wen-Xiang Chen

We provide a proof of the necessary and sufficient condition on the profile of the temperature, chemical potential, and angular velocity for a charged perfect fluid in dynamic equilibrium to be in thermodynamic equilibrium not only in fixed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Kai Shi , Yu Tian , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang , Chuanjia Zhu

Gravity theory is the basis of modern cosmological models. Thirring-Feynman's tensor field approach to gravitation is an alternative to General Relativity (GR). Though Field Gravity (FG) approach is still developing subject, it opens new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Yurij Baryshev

All physical systems in equilibrium obey the laws of thermodynamics. In other words, whatever the precise nature of the interaction between the atoms and molecules at the microscopic level, at the macroscopic level, physical systems exhibit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Percy Deift

There are two strong clues about the quantum structure of spacetime and the gravitational dynamics, which are almost universally ignored in the conventional approaches to quantize gravity. The first clue is that null surfaces exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-17 T. Padmanabhan

While the warming trends of the Earth's mean temperature are evident at climatological scales, the local temperature at shorter timescales are highly fluctuating. In this letter we show that the probabilities of such fluctuations are…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-04-21 Jun Yin , Amilcare Porporato , Lamberto Rondoni

We extend on ideas from standard thermodynamics to show that temperature can be assigned to a general nonequilibrium quantum system. By choosing a physically motivated complete set of observables and expanding the system state thereupon,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 S. Alipour , F. Benatti , M. Afsary , F. Bakhshinezhad , M. Ramezani , T. Ala-Nissila , A. T. Rezakhani

How thermal equilibrium is determined in a weakly collisional plasma is a fundamental question in plasma physics. This letter shows that the turbulence driven by the magnetic curvature and density gradient tends to equilibrate the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Ryusuke Numata

Our aim is to investigate the thermodynamic properties of the universe bounded by the cosmological event horizon and dominated by the tachyon fluid. We give two different laws of evolution of our universe. Further, we show the first law and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-29 Fei-Quan Tu , Yi-Xin Chen

Temperature is an outsider in the laws of motion given by Newton and Einstein and this oversight is the source of the predictions of time-reversal-invariance made by these two great systems of motion. By taking into consideration Planck's…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Randy Wayne

The present work deals with irreversible Universal thermodynamics. The homogenous and isotropic flat model of the universe is chosen as open thermodynamical system and non-equilibrium thermodynamics comes into picture due to the mechanism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-17 Subhajit Saha , Atreyee Biswas , Subenoy Chakraborty

An alternative, scalar theory of gravitation has been proposed, based on a mechanism/interpretation of gravity as being a pressure force: Archimedes' thrust. In it, the gravitational field affects the physical standards of space and time,…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 Mayeul Arminjon

A rigorous thermodynamic analysis has been done at the apparent horizon of a spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe for the gravitationally induced particle creation scenario with constant specific entropy and an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-24 Subhajit Saha , Anindita Mondal

The vacuum of quantum fields contains correlated fluctuations. When restricted to one side of a surface these have a huge entropy of entanglement that scales with the surface area. If UV physics renders this entropy finite, then a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-13 Ted Jacobson