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The relationship between concepts in Materials Science and Sosmology

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A number of concepts common to both the fields of Materials Science and Astrophysics have been elucidated. In particular, the curvature and unboundedness of the universe is associated with the idea of surface energy. On the other hand, the geometries associated with black holes and precipitate particles are shown to be basically similar, and can be represented in terms of dislocations. Finally, the idea of a dislocation is extended to the four-dimensional space-time continuum.

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Marcinkowski, M.J. The relationship between concepts in Materials Science and Sosmology. Acta Physica 50, 13–28 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03157954

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