Today’s another treat… Professor Wayne Myrvold just demolished (almost) everything you thought you knew about entropy and the second law. We cover:
Why physicists give opposite answers about the same entropy question
The hidden schism: thermodynamics as physics vs. thermodynamics as resource theory
The statistical nature of the “law” that isn’t really a law
The best part? Wayne explains how different textbooks teach contradictory versions of thermodynamics because they fundamentally disagree about what the science is studying! It’s super interesting. Some treat entropy as an objective property like mass; others treat it as relative to an observer’s knowledge and capabilities.
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