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By: Happy 200th birthday, Carnot’s theorem! | Quantum Frontiers

Happy 200th birthday, Carnot’s theorem! | Quantum Frontiers — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:32:28 +0000

[…] theorem encapsulates the second law of thermodynamics. The second law helps us understand why time flows in only one direction. And what’s deeper or more foundational than time’s arrow? People often cast the second law in […]

By: How I didn’t become a philosopher (but wound up presenting a named philosophy lecture anyway) | Quantum Frontiers

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:10:26 +0000

[…] on the second law of quantum thermodynamics from a quantum physicist.” Scientists formulated the second law the early 1800s. It helps us understand why time appears to flow in only one direction. I described […]

By: The quantum gold rush | Quantum Frontiers

The quantum gold rush | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:01:12 +0000

[…] how electric charges fluctuate in the quantum vacuum. Fluctuations feature also in extensions of the second law of thermodynamics, which helps explain why time flows in only one direction. Gabriel Landi, from the University of […]

By: Eight highlights from publishing a science book for the general public | Quantum Frontiers

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 01:02:19 +0000

[…] efficiencies using just one entropy: the thermodynamic entropy that you’ve probably encountered in connection with time’s arrow. How does this conventional entropy relate to the many quantum entropies? Imagine starting with a […]

By: May you go from weakness to weakness | Quantum Frontiers

May you go from weakness to weakness | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 01:00:27 +0000

[…] machine; then the rest of us would figure out why it couldn’t exist. Satisfied that the second law of thermodynamics still reigned, we’d decamp for coffee. (Perpetual-motion machines belong to the foundations of […]

By: Love in the time of thermo |

Love in the time of thermo | — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 10:44:25 +0000

[…] a thermodynamicist, I see the second law of thermodynamics in every chapter. The second law implies that time marches only forward, order decays, and randomness scatters information to the […]

By: Love in the time of thermo | Quantum Frontiers

Love in the time of thermo | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 00:22:35 +0000

By: Long live Yale’s cemetery | Quantum Frontiers

Long live Yale’s cemetery | Quantum Frontiers — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 00:27:11 +0000

[…] mechanics helps us understand why time flows in only one direction. As a colleague reminded me at a conference about entropy, “You are young. But you will grow old and die.” That conference featured a field trip to a […]

By: Catching up with the quantum-thermo crowd | Quantum Frontiers

Catching up with the quantum-thermo crowd | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 02:59:08 +0000

[…] Of course he showed us a cemetery. We were at a thermodynamics conference. […]

By: Decoding (the allure of) the apparent horizon | Quantum Frontiers

Decoding (the allure of) the apparent horizon | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 02:58:10 +0000

[…] An event horizon’s area, Bekenstein and Hawking showed, is proportional to the black hole’s thermodynamic entropy. Netta and Aron proved a proportionality between another area and another […]