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Fallible Animals Episode 6: Interview with Physicist Chiara Marletto
Fallible Animals
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
There are other principles and laws that have been conjectured, which seem very powerful. They don't have a dynamical law or a law motion but they're formulated in terms of statements about what transformations are possible given certain resources. With thermodynamics, you've got the second law, for instance; it works successfully for macroscopic objects like heat engines. But if you try to extend the second law to microscopic systems, meaning a single, let's say molecule doing something like a sort of cycle, then you're running into also some problems because the laws of thermodynamics are not suited for these microscopic objects. And I think constructive theory would like to solve this by putting those laws on thermal
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