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The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics

Veritasium · 3 min read

Earth receives a steady stream of energy from the sun, but the deeper mystery is what that energy *doesn’t* do: it doesn’t simply vanish, and it...

EntropyCarnot EfficiencySecond Law

The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion Machines

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Perpetual motion machines fail for a simple reason: every proposed design ultimately breaks a law of thermodynamics—or, at best, can only run down to...

ThermodynamicsPerpetual MotionEntropy

The Misunderstood Nature of Entropy

PBS Space Time · 3 min read

Entropy’s core claim is simple but far-reaching: in an isolated system, entropy tends to increase, which effectively sets the universe’s “arrow of...

EntropySecond LawStatistical Mechanics