Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The First Law of Thermodynamics
The first law of thermo dynamics is basically conservation of energy. The second law is a little more subtle, and it's that this quantity called entrope is something that can never decrease in a closed system. And so why do you need to be that aware? Cause all the incentive structures are built around kind of a continuanceye,. i mean, i got paid a good salary to shoot lazers at the moon and write papers about it, and i was knowledgeable on that, that would be a pretty good deal. So unfortunately, the story that you and i spend a lot of time delving into is not a pleasant, a happy one because we're looking at two or three
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