Thermodynamics and the Principle of Conservation of Energy

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In the 1920s it looked for a moment as if quantum mechanical phenomena did violate the principle of conservation of energy. Einstein himself scoffed at this and eventually he would be vindicated. Now consider the science of thermodynamics, which I don't think we've touched on before. Thermodynamics is a sprawling and many-headed dragon, which we'll explore in greater detail in a future episodes.

We discuss the difference between laws versus principles as elucidated by constructor theory, and why it matters. Constructor theory may be thought of as a 'theory of theories' whose principles constrain other theories. Just as these subsidiary, object-level theories constrain the behavior of physical phenomena, so too constructor theory, as a meta-level theory, constrains the behavior of object-level theories both known and unknown. Constructor theoretic principles can also constrain and solve problems with theories that explain inherently unpredictable phenomena, such as those of biology, economics, and epistemology.

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