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    "abstract": "Recent intriguing discussion of heat death by Kutrovatz is critically\nexamined. It is shown that there exists another way of answering the heat death\npuzzle, already present in the ancient philosophical tradition. This\nalternative route relies not only on the final duration of time (which has been\nre-discovered in modern times), but also on the notion of observational\nself-selection, which has received wide publicity in the last several decades\nunder the title of the anthropic principle(s). Although the questions Kutrovatz\nraises are important and welcome, there are several errors in his treatment of\ncosmology which marr his account of the entire topic. In addition, the nascent\ndiscipline of physical eschatology holds promise of answering the basic\nexplanatory task concerning the future evolution of the universe without\nappealing to metaphysics. This is a completely novel feature in the history of\nscience, in contradistinction to the historical examples discussed.",
    "arxiv_id": "physics/0211084",
    "authors": [
      "Milan M. Cirkovic"
    ],
    "categories": [
      "physics.hist-ph",
      "physics.gen-ph"
    ],
    "journal_ref": "Open Systems and Information Dynamics 9, 291-299 (2002)",
    "title": "Entropy and Eschatology: A Comment on Kutrovatz\u0027s Paper \"Heat Death in   Ancient and Modern Thermodynamics\"",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0211084"
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