Ginger Zee

Meteorologists don't use a script, and most create their own graphics and certainly put together their own forecasts. Most of us went to school to become scientists - at least I did - and studied thermodynamics, physics, and tons of calculus to take this young science to the next level. Our accuracy is amazing and will only continue to improve.

American Scientist

Gus Grissom

When I was studying at Purdue, we learned our thermodynamics from an antique steam engine. When I went back in 1964, I found the laboratories packed with the most modern equipment for the study of thermodynamics, some of which had been built by the students themselves.

American Astronaut

Neri Oxman

We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics!

American Architect

Wilhelm Wien

As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle.

German Physicist

Barry Commoner

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

Lars Onsager

The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.

Norwegian Scientist

Norman Ralph Augustine

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

American Author

Seth Lloyd

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

American Educator

Mark Hyman

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

Dan Castellaneta

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

American Actor

Used mainly in scientific discussions about energy conversion and efficiency.

Technical Usage

Focuses on the relationship between heat and the work or output it produces.

Heat & Work

Refers to systems where energy transformation is significant, like engines or power plants.

Energy Systems

Thermodynamics is a subject studied in physics and engineering.

Academic Field

Involves basic principles that explain how temperature and energy interact in any material.

Fundamental Principles

Highlights the importance of temperature in the study of energy and matter.

Temperature Importance

 Just as we can't predict what one molecule in a gas will do -- it's hopeless to predict a single molecule -- yet we can predict the properties of the whole gas, using thermodynamics, very accurately. It's the same thing here. We can't predict any particular project, but the result of this whole worldwide,

The accelerating power...

 operating in a period when scientists were passionately debating whether the universe had existed for an infinite or finite time. Boltzmann’s main claim to fame was revolutionizing thermodynamics, the branch of physics that studies energy. He put forward a new interpretation of entropy,

The Boltzmann brain...

 from the random thermodynamic jostling of atoms and molecules in inanimate matter of the same complexity. In fact, living matter seems to behave in this order, in a structure, just like inanimate matter cooled down to near absolute zero, where quantum effects play a very important role.

How Quantum Biology...

 that not matter how much you've invested in your brand, one bad week can undermine decades of good work. So be really careful to try and avoid the screw-ups that can undermine your brand. And lastly, to the slightly obscure world of entropy -- the second law of thermodynamics.

Dan Cobley: What physics...

 and can use their energy emission to measure their temperature. Black hole thermodynamics suggests that we can similarly define the “temperature” of a black hole. It theorizes that the more massive the black hole, the lower its temperature. The universe’s largest black holes

Can a black hole be...

 The energy world is governed by much more mundane laws, the laws of thermodynamics, right? It's physical stuff in the economy. Cement, trucks, factories, power plants. Atoms, not bits. Atoms, not bits. Perfect. And the transformation of big physical things is slower,

How to decarbonize the...

 And we know in our heart of hearts that the universe does not travel from mush to complexity. In fact, this gut instinct is reflected in one of the most fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy. What that says basically

The history of our world...

 you were producing that much energy in such a small place either his chest or in some energy generating place in his building as much energy as that is you're going to be creating heat fundamental laws of thermodynamics would

Is Iron Man’s Arc...

 it could sustain life indefinitely. There's just one problem. They don't work. Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics,

Why don't perpetual...

 what's true for the waterfall is true for everything in the universe it's a fundamental law of nature known as the first law of thermodynamics and the fact