Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.
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Is There a Time Symmetrical Way of Reversing the Second Law?
It seems like the processes that the second law governs happen one way, but there's no time symmetric way of reversing them. Irreversability is at the core of various phenomena that are ubiquitous in physical reality. The irreversibility requirement of the second law brutally clashes with the laws of motion ruling the elementary constituents of matter. Is there a unique pictr physical reality that can reconcile reversability and irreversability?
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