Entropy revisited: The plausible role of gravitation

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 256, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 369-374

  Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a   Hermon, Ziv ^a   Shnirman, Alexander ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

CLOSED SYSTEMS; ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 0347876172     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00256-X     Document Type: Article

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