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• A Brief Case for an e th Law
• Physical History and Economics, Second Edition
• Supplement One to Physical History and Economics, Second Edition

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Older Publications

• M. Ciotola "A Thermodynamic Perspective on Profits", North American Technocrat, Vol. 5, Issue 8, 2006.
• M. Ciotola Physical History and Economics, 2003.
• M. Ciotola "Social Design via Entropy Consumption and Entropy Production", North American Technocrat, Vol. 2, Issue 6, 2003.
• M. Ciotola, "Factors Affecting Calculation of L", LASE-SPIE, 2002.

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The e th Law may be similar to, but not necessarily identical to, other proposed laws, such Maximum Entropy Production (MEP), the Maximum Entropy Production Principle (MEPP), and the Law of Maximum Entropy Production (LMEP). Some of the following papers concern those other laws.

• R. L. Dewar, J. Phys. A. Math. Gen. 36, 631 (2003)
• Holland, Lawrence Rozier, "Crucible Surface, Thermal Refraction, Boundaries, and Interface Shape in Melt Growth", Journal of Crystal Growth, 96: 577-583, 1989.
• Holland, Lawrence Rozier, "Tangent Law of Refraction for Heat Conduction through an Interface and Underlying Variational Principle", American Journal of Physics, 58: 988, 1990.

• Axel Kleidon, "Climatic constraints on maximum levels of human metabolic activity and their relation to human evolution and global change", Climatic Change (2009) 95:405–431.
• Ralph Lorenz, "Full Steam Ahead—Probably", Science Vol 299 7 February 2003
• L.M. Martyusheva, V.D. Seleznevb, "Maximum entropy production principle in physics, chemistry and biology", Physics Reports 426 (2006) 1 – 45
• G.W.Paltridge ,Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc.101,475 (1975).
• Swenson, R., "Emergence and the principle of maximum entropy production: Multi-level system theory, evolution, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics," Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for General Systems Research, 32. Proposes a law of maximum entropy production in qualitative, variational terms.
• Brandon Toyama, "The Effects of Thermal Refraction in the Dissipation of Heat in a Heterogeneous Medium", http://facweb.eths.k12.il.us/chemphys/research/BrandonHeatRefraction.htm, ~1998. Discusses a demonstration of L. Holland's law of thermal "refraction".

Concerns have been raised regarding the e th Law and time symmetry-breaking. See the works of Bernard Guy for more.

 

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A Scientist Takes On Gravity, New York Times, July 12, 2010. Physicist Erik Verlinde suggests that gravity is a manifestation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.