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192 | Nicole Yunger Halpern on Quantum Steampunk Thermodynamics

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Origins of Thermodynamics

Classical thermo dynamics from the nineteenth century was the paradigmatic a applied science. It really was almost engineering. But some thermo dynamicists thought it worth while to think about individual particles. And so we can even start to see the legacy of quantum theory in thermo dynamics. That's true, ye, men. We have no need to talk about these invisible particles that you can't even see. They sort of beat down ono thermodonamesist who wanted to think aboutindividual particles.

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