The eternal return of the universe
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https://doi.org/10.29105/ingenierias28.99-971Keywords:
Eternal return, Poincaré’s recurrence theorem, microstates of a system, statistical physicsAbstract
In this work some ideas about the concept of eternal return in the universe are presented, supported by scientific arguments. Applying the concepts of quantum statistical physics, it is proven that for a universe eternal in time and finite volume but unlimited, all possible physical states occur recurrently for sufficiently long times. This means that all events that occur in the universe will repeat indefinitely.
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