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  2. Time in physics - Wikipedia

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    In the International System of Units (SI), the unit of time is the second (symbol: s). It has been defined since 1967 as "the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom", and is an SI base unit. [12]

  3. Thermodynamic limit - Wikipedia

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    The thermodynamic limit is essentially a consequence of the central limit theorem of probability theory. The internal energy of a gas of N molecules is the sum of order N contributions, each of which is approximately independent, and so the central limit theorem predicts that the ratio of the size of the fluctuations to the mean is of order 1/N 1/2.

  4. Entropy as an arrow of time - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the thermodynamic entropy, which is proportional to the marginal entropy, must also increase with time [8] (note that "not too long" in this context is relative to the time needed, in a classical version of the system, for it to pass through all its possible microstates—a time that can be roughly estimated as , where is the time ...

  5. Lorentz factor - Wikipedia

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    The Lorentz factor γ is defined as [3] = = = = =, where: . v is the relative velocity between inertial reference frames,; c is the speed of light in vacuum,; β is the ratio of v to c,; t is coordinate time,

  6. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    time: second (s) four-velocity: meter per second (m/s) potential energy: joule (J) internal energy: joule (J) relativistic mass: kilogram (kg) energy density: joule per cubic meter (J/m 3) specific energy: joule per kilogram (J/kg) voltage also called electric potential difference volt (V)

  7. Quantum spacetime - Wikipedia

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    The upshot is that Lorentz-boosting a momentum will never increase it above the Planck momentum. The existence of a highest momentum scale or lowest distance scale fits the physical picture. This squashing comes from the non-linearity of the Lorentz boost and is an endemic feature of bicrossproduct quantum groups known since their introduction ...

  8. Absolute space and time - Wikipedia

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    Motion (also path or trajectory) is a function r : Δ → R 3 that maps a point in the interval Δ from the time axis to a position (radius vector) in R 3. The above four concepts are the "well-known" objects mentioned by Isaac Newton in his Principia: I do not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all. [13]

  9. Bekenstein bound - Wikipedia

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    According to the Bekenstein bound, the entropy of a black hole is proportional to the number of Planck areas that it would take to cover the black hole's event horizon.. In physics, the Bekenstein bound (named after Jacob Bekenstein) is an upper limit on the thermodynamic entropy S, or Shannon entropy H, that can be contained within a given finite region of space which has a finite amount of ...