INVESTIGADORES
LOMBARDI olimpia Iris
artículos
Título:
The global arrow of time as a geometrical property of the universe
Autor/es:
MARIO CASTAGNINO; OLIMPIA LOMBARDI; LUIS LARA
Revista:
FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
Editorial:
SPRINGER
Referencias:
Lugar: Dordrecht; Año: 2003 vol. 33 p. 877 - 912
ISSN:
0015-9018
Resumen:
Traditional discussions about the arrow of time in general involve the concept of entropy. In the cosmological context, the direction past-to-future is usually related to the direction of the gradient of the entropy function of the universe. But the definition of the entropy of the universe is a very controversial matter. Moreover, thermodynamics is a phenomenological theory. Geometrical properties of spacetime provide a more fundamental and less controversial way of defining an arrow of time for the universe as a whole. We will call the arrow defined only on the basis of the geometrical properties of space-time, independently of any entropic considerations, the global arrow of time. In this paper we will argue that: (i) if certain conditions are satisfied, it is possible to define a global arrow of time for the universe as a whole, and (ii) the standard models of contemporary cosmology satisfy these conditions.
