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Gravity, Entropy, and the Second Law: A Pedagogical Perspective
Jorge Pinochet, Giorgio Sonnino
An interesting question for discussion in university physics courses is whether gravity can conflict with the second law of thermodynamics. In this work, we address this question b…
physics.gen-ph2026
Entropy, Gravity, and an Apparent Violation of the Second Law
Jorge Pinochet, Giorgio Sonnino
An interesting question to explore in physics classes is whether gravity violates the second law of thermodynamics. Standard physics textbooks provide little to no discussion of th…
physics.pop-ph2026
Black holes and bits: A simple path to Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
Jorge Pinochet
In the early 1970s, Jacob Bekenstein discovered that black holes have entropy, which became one of the greatest scientific revolutions of the second half of the 20th century. The o…