[net.physics] entropy and acausality

UNIX%Ames-VMSB@sri-unix.UUCP (04/18/84)

The true nature of thermodynamic entropy, and its relation to system
evalution, information, and causality is under active investigation
by the formost physicist alive.  People like Hawking, Prigiogine, and 
Penrose.  Entropy is intimatly connected with Shannon information and
even evaporating mini-black holes.  Sarfatti conjectures (as debroglie
did long ago, but less formally) that entropy is negative probablity
arriving from outside the light cone.

Hawkings recent derivations (see Quantum Grivity, a Second Oxford 
Symbosium, Princeton U. Press) confirm this.  Several physicicists
beleive we are on the verge of a new "watershed" where super GUT,
entropy-information, and EPR all are integrated.

Stay tuned!
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