Entropy Revisited: the Plausible Role of Gravitation

Details Entropy Revisited: the Plausible Role of Gravitation Entropy Revisited: the Plausible Role of Gravitation

1999-05-27

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905403v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

10 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00256-X

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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