#thermodynamics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thermodynamics, aggregated by home.social.
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No escape from thermodynamic limits
HOW do you explain what Charles Dickens called “The best of times, and the worst of times?” We…
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Why Thermodynamics Rules Future Orbital Data Centers
https://spectrum.ieee.org/orbital-data-centers-heat
#HackerNews #thermodynamics #orbitaldatacenters #spaceinnovation #heatmanagement
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How Clean Air Warms the Earth
Today, we’re exploring a microscopic landscape completely invisible to the naked eye—a world of 'ghost' particles that control both our climate and our own biology.
#aerosol #TerminationShock #atmosphere #physics #thermodynamics #PublicHealth #ShippingEmissions #sulfur #FaustianBargain #WhiteDragon #白龍 #EarthCARE #podcasts #YouTube #GlobalWarming
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Why Data Centers in Space Won’t Work - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w6G7VEwNq0
#KyleHill #SciPhile #Science #Physics #DataCenters #SpaceDatacenters #AIInSpace #Thermodynamics #Power -
“Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last”*…
From the arcane through the mysterious to the perplexing, a glorious collecton of obscure– but fascinating– knowledge…
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So many more at: Freakpages
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As we explore, we might spare a thought for a man driven by an endles spirit of inquiry, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin; he died on this date in 1907. A mathematician, mathematical physicist, and engineer considered by many “the Newton of his era,” Lord Kelvin was instrumental in the formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and contributed significantly to unifying physics, which was then in its infancy of development as an emerging academic discipline. He received the Royal Society’s Copley Medal in 1883 and served as its president from 1890 to 1895. In 1892 he became the first scientist to be elevated to the House of Lords. Absolute temperatures are stated in units of kelvin in his honor.
#art #culture #curiosity #engineering #Freakpages #history #Kelvin #knowledge #lawsOfThermodynamics #literature #LordKelvin #Mathematics #music #philosophy #politics #Science #Technology #thermodynamics #WilliamThomson
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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Mechanical Engineering
The City College of New YorkSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/the-city-college-of-new-york-27778-assistant-professor-tenure-track-in-mechanical-engineering/
#2Dmaterials #fluidmechanics #SmartManufacturing #SOlidMechanics #thermodynamics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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Mid-Proterozoic Expansion Of Passive Margins And Reduction In Volcanic Outgassing Supported Marine Oxygenation And Eukaryogenesis
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119683 <-- shared paper
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https://zenodo.org/records/17353904 <-- supplementary data
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#proterozoic #platetectonics #tectonics #deepcarboncycle #eukaryogenesis #evolutionoflife #life #evolution #geology #geologichistory #pangea #supercontinent #diversification #volcanic #offgassing #marine #thermodynamics #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #nuna #subduction #structuralgeology #CO2 #carbondioxide #climate #eukaryotic #BoringBillion #rodinia #oceanbasins #marinechemistry #outgassing #global #earth -
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Mechanical Engineering
The City College of New YorkSee the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/the-city-college-of-new-york-27778-assistant-professor-tenure-track-in-mechanical-engineering/
#2Dmaterials #fluidmechanics #SmartManufacturing #SOlidMechanics #thermodynamics #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
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This week, let’s spotlight an excellent foundational Nordita lecture series by Dr. Ivan Khaymovich, available in #OpenAccess on Enabla. This advanced Master-level course offers a modern introduction to the principles of thermalization, ergodicity, and their breakdown in both classical and quantum systems. It's a timely and valuable resource for students and researchers working on nonequilibrium dynamics, chaos, information thermodynamics, and localization phenomena.
💡 Even better: Ivan is on Enabla and happy to help clarify any questions you may have about the lectures. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of one of the most active frontiers in theoretical physics; watch and discuss the course with its author and others at https://enabla.com/set/182
📘 Key topics include:
🔹 Classical systems:
• Nonequilibrium and stochastic thermodynamics
• Jarzynski equality and Crooks relation
• Entropy production and the arrow of time
• Thermodynamics on trajectories and Maxwell's Demon
• Feedback and mutual information in thermodynamics
• Classical chaos and ergodicity🔹 Quantum systems:
• Quantum chaos and thermalization
• Ergodicity measures and the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH)
• Random-matrix theory and eigenlevel statistics
• Anderson and many-body localization (MBL)
• Multifractality and ergodicity breaking beyond MBL#Ergodicity #Thermodynamics #QuantumChaos #Thermalization #StatisticalMechanics #ManyBodyPhysics #InformationThermodynamics
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#PhysicsJournalClub
"Temperature as joules per bit"
by C.A. Bédard, S. Berthelette, X. Coiteux-Roy, and S. WolfAm. J. Phys. 93, 390 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1119/5.0198820Entropy is an important but largely misunderstood quantity. A lot of this confusion arise from its original formulation within the framework of Thermodynamics. Looking at it from a microscopic point of view (i.e. approaching it as a Statistical Mechanics problem) makes it a lot more digestible, but its ties to Thermodynamics still creates a lot of unnecessary complications.
In this paper the authors suggest that by removing the forced connection between entropy and the Kelvin temperature scale, one can rethink entropy purely in terms of information capacity of a Physical system, which takes away a lot of the difficulties usually plaguing the understanding of what entropy is actually about.
I don't think the SI will ever consider their suggestion to remove Kelvins as a fundamental unit and include bits, but this paper will be a great boon to any student banging their head against the idea of entropy for the first (or second, or third) time. -
And yes, that is the opening paragraph of David Goodstein's "States of Matter".
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/science-textbook-gloomy-intro/
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.5116583
#Physics #Thermodynamics #StatisticalMechanics #LifeTheUniverseAndEverything
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Could One #Physics #Theory Unlock the #Mysteries of the #Brain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGFp7lMi9A&ab_channel=QuantaMagazine
#PerBak #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Neuroscience #Biology #MolecularBiology #Thermodynamics #SellfSimilar #ScaleInvariance #Fractal #Fractals #CriticalPoint #Criticality #Ising #IsingModel #PhaseState #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Homeostasis #QuasiCrticality
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#SeanCarroll - The #Physics of #Entropy and the #OriginOfLife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz1n0RHwLqA&ab_channel=BigThink
#Science #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfPhysics #Order #Disorder #Microstates #Macrostates #LudwigBoltzmann #Thermodynamics #SecondLaw #SecondLawOfThermodynamics #2ndLaw #2ndLawOfThermodynamics #Boltzmann #Statistics #StatisticalMechanics #ThermalEquilibrium #HeatDeath #Complexity #Simplicity
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Well, even I am not THAT depressed.
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The Incredible Tech of the Vacuum-Seal Flask - I recently started using a 50-year-old vacuum-seal flask that belonged to my Grand... - https://hackaday.com/2021/10/21/the-incredible-tech-of-the-vacuum-seal-flask/ #inthishouseweobeythelawsofthermodynamics #heatconduction #thermodynamics #sirjamesdewar #vacuumsealed #endothermic #evaporation #convection #dewarflask #exothermic #radiation #featured #interest #history #science #thermos
