Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and CosmologyAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 272 páginas The author considers the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to this law, the entropy of any closed system will inevitably increase in time, meaning that the system will decay and eventually end in a dead state of equilibrium. |
Índice
Introduction | 1 |
Some Early Ideas on Decay and Creation | 9 |
Thermodynamics and the Heat Death | 23 |
The Entropic Creation Argument | 47 |
Concepts of the Universe | 103 |
Post1920 Developments | 193 |
Shadows from the Past | 221 |
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