Timeline for Are the fundamental forces constantly fighting entropy?
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| May 7, 2020 at 17:50 | answer | added | Roghan Arun | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 18, 2015 at 21:04 | comment | added | Sebastian Riese | In a way gravity is the most difficult force to make disappear consistently (it is difficult for the other forces as well). But with gravity you'll have the complication that you must change space itself to make gravity disappear and you cannot simply map a curved space to a flat one, without changing distances. Simply setting the coupling constant $G$ to zero will not remove self-interaction of the gravitational field. And there you would get into conservation of energy troubles (as the metric field would still make matter move, but not loose energy by that). | |
| Oct 18, 2015 at 20:05 | comment | added | loldrup | OK, then what if only gravity disappeared? | |
| Oct 17, 2015 at 12:45 | comment | added | Sebastian Riese | If the forces disappeared the entropy of the universe would remain constant, since without interaction there is no way for the system to equilibrate. Also, there is no way for the forces to disappear in a consistent manner. | |
| Oct 17, 2015 at 12:17 | history | asked | loldrup | CC BY-SA 3.0 |