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Saturday, May 09, 2015

Laws of Thermodynamics

It just so happens that since few self-condemned to eternal hell assessed me as unable to manage my own money, I've started to go back to my real passion for mathematics and physics that have become part of me (personality) since I was born, almost.
Therefore given that physics seems to have become a very followed and researched topic - especially given what the quantum theories can now show-make this post about the laws of Thermodynamics in the simplest possible way and I mention about the immense genius of Albert Einstein and his relation to this concept:

Thermodynamics is the study of the inter-relation between heat, work and internal energy of a system.

The British scientist and author C.P. Snow had an excellent way of remembering the three laws:
1. You cannot win (that is, you cannot get something for nothing, because matter and energy are conserved and always present).
2. You cannot break even (you cannot return to the same energy state, because there is always an increase in disorder; entropy always increases).
3. You cannot get out of the game (because absolute zero is unattainable).
Einstein's universally famous equation E = mc is truly the basis of all that's been discovered, studied and understood since.
Since I don't want to take much of my own (and yours) time to explain what's now taught today in middle schools, I simply post here very few links to websites that give a good description with explanations of the genius of Einstein, who truly gave a kick start to the development of all we know today of our universe and its laws, with the additional challenge to his theories coming from the quantum principles that don't seem to agree at all with relativity and that are now at the basis of the search for the so called: "theory of everything" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Salz7uGp72c







  1. http://www.space.com/17661-theory-general-relativity.html
  2. http://www.livescience.com/48922-theory-of-relativity-in-real-life.html
  3. http://www.rpgroup.caltech.edu/courses/aph105c/2006/articles/Klein_Einstein.pdf
  4. http://www.harunyahya.com/en/Evolution-Dictionary/16630/the-second-law-of-thermodynamics
  5. http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/einstein.html
  6. http://www.allaboutscience.org/theory-of-relativity.htm

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