How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Stephen Wolfram
JANUARY 31, 2023
But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. Experience provides on the contrary a number of irreversible phenomena.
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