Friday, September 14, 2012

1209.3004 (Diego Pavón et al.)

Does the entropy of the Universe tend to a maximum?    [PDF]

Diego Pavón, Ninfa Radicella
Ordinary, macroscopic systems, naturally tend to a state of maximum entropy compatible with their constraints. However, this might not hold for gravity-dominated systems since their entropy may increase without bound unless this is precluded by the formation of a black hole. In this short note we suggest, based on the Hubble expansion history, that our Universe likely behaves as an ordinary system, i.e., that its entropy seems to tend to some maximum value.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3004

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