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VALIDITY ASSUMED. “It seems, therefore, that such a proof could be obtained only in the context of quantum-statistical mechanics in curved space-time. Since this discipline does not yet exist, we shall simply have to assume, on the strength of the arguments of paper I, and in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that the GSL is valid generally.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

THERMODYNAMICS IS QUANTUM. “We have repeatedly seen that quantum effects play a prominent role in the operation of the law: The GSL is at its roots a quantum law. We have also seen that the GSL is a statistical law.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

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THE CLEAR LIGHT OF THE VOID. “Similar to the hypnogogic state just preceding sleep, this juncture of the individual and the general mind allows the individual's last desires to be projected over the general network, and thus to be manifested at a distance.” (Professor John Curtis Gowan, a precocious thinker). https://lnkd.in/d4sDpAu View in LinkedIn

BIGGER QUESTION. “One is also interested in whether the GSL holds for the process of black-hole formation.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

EXCESS ENTROPY. “Entropy may be generated in the black-hole exterior as an organic part of the whole process; this extra entropy cannot be ignored.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

UNNECESSARY AND INSUFFICIENT. “One might think that the law would hold if each small element of matter causes an increase in black-hole area at least equivalent to its own entropy. But this condition may be neither necessary nor meaningful.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

QUESTION. “One might ask whether the GSL holds for the case of some tenuous matter accreting onto a stationary black hole from all directions.” (GSL = the generalized second law of thermodynamics). https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

DEFINITION. “A generic black hole is a region of spacetime enclosed in an event horizon (one-way membrane), which is a null hypersurface generated by a congruence of null geodesics characterized locally by a (real) convergence p and shear o.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn

APPLICABILITY. “Thus by generalizing the concept "entropy" to include black-hole entropy, one can hope to make the second law valid and useful in the presence of black holes.” https://lnkd.in/dAr7QTt View in LinkedIn