Arieh Ben-Naim is a well-respected thermodynamicist who believes that application of the laws of thermodynamics to the whole universe and to black holes is not

Arieh Ben-Naim is a well-respected thermodynamicist who believes that application of the laws of thermodynamics to the whole universe and to black holes is not valid. He's written books about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arieh_Ben-Naim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arieh_Ben-Naim https://www.amazon.com/Arieh-Ben-Naim/e/B001HD1O86/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 https://www.amazon.com/Arieh-Ben-Naim/e/B001HD1O86/ref=dp_by... I enjoyed Ben-Naim's "Briefest History of Time, The: The History of Histories of Time and the Misconstrued Association Between Entropy and Time " https://www.amazon.com/s?k=briefest+history+of+time https://www.amazon.com/s?k=briefest+history+of+time Ben-Naim takes credit for Hawking later cutting most of his "Brief History of Tme" in later editions.