Journal
FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
Volume 40, Issue 8, Pages 1076-1080Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10701-010-9423-5
Keywords
Black hole; Thermodynamics; Lorentz symmetry; Second law
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- National Science Foundation [PHY-0601800, PHY-0903572]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0903572] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recent developments point to a breakdown in the generalized second law of thermodynamics for theories with Lorentz symmetry violation. It appears possible to construct a perpetual motion machine of the second kind in such theories, using a black hole to catalyze the conversion of heat to work. Here we describe and extend the arguments leading to that conclusion. We suggest the inference that local Lorentz symmetry may be an emergent property of the macroscopic world with origins in a microscopic second law of causal horizon thermodynamics.
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