thermodynamic

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• Ultimately, according to our best understanding of thermodynamics, the universe will end as a cold, high-entropy soup.

• The one law of physics that virtually all scientists believe will never be found to be wrong is the second law of thermodynamics.

• Parent got the wrong answer, but nevertheless laid the groundwork for the second law of thermodynamics.

• Working out these speeds involves getting deep into thermodynamics, which isn’t practical.

• One feature about them, first noted by physicist Jacob Beckenstein, that is taken as a fundamental clue, is that their energy exchanges with the exterior are ruled by laws that seem identical to those of the thermodynamics.

• The whole study of thermodynamic equilibrium has been reduced by the French mathematical school to a question of probability.

• But then the source provided by the thermodynamic view just stated had ceased to exist.

• In regard to thermal effects we can obtain some indications from general thermodynamic theory.

• A certain assignment of value to it gave, as we shall see, Thomson's famous absolute thermodynamic scale of temperature.

• At present we consider some of the thermodynamic relations of the properties of bodies arrived at by Thomson.