On the Problem of the Entropy of the Universe as a Whole
- 15 June 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 37 (12) , 1639-1660
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.37.1639
Abstract
The well-known problem of the entropy of the universe as a whole arises from the difficulties encountered by classical thermodynamics—first in failing to account for the presumed fact that the entropy of the universe has always been increasing at an enormous rate and nevertheless has not yet reached its maximum value—and second in failing to allow an emotionally satisfactory feeling towards our universe whose ultimate fate would be the stagnation of "heat-death." The purpose of the present article is to examine this problem from the point of view of the extension of thermodynamics to general relativity which has previously been made by the author.Keywords
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