Narlikar, J. V.2012-03-092012-03-091974-01-11http://hdl.handle.net/11007/1115Arguments are advanced to show that the time-asymmetry present in thermodynamics is likely to be strongly related to cosmology. It is also shown that not all models of the expanding universe provide a satisfactory link between thermodynamics and cosmology. Of the models usually discussed by the cosmologist only the steady state model has the required properties.enThermodynamicsCosmologyArticle