General Relativity and the Eternal Return

作者: Frank J. Tipler

DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-691380-4.50009-5

关键词: State (functional analysis)Eternal returnPoincaré recurrence theoremUniverseCosmologyPhysicsMetric expansion of spaceGeneral relativityTheoretical physicsFour-force

摘要: Abstract An arbitrarily close return to a previous initial state of the Universe, such as is predicted by Poincare recurrence theorem, cannot occur in closed universe governed general relativity. The significance this result for cosmology and thermodynamics pointed out.

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