User:Zaereth/sandbox

Welcome to my etch-a-sketch.

My interest in helping with a real, cognitive understanding of thermodynamics. However, after just discovering a few of the best books on thermodynamics I've seen yet, I will simply leave a couple of quotes. My special thanks to Hans Fuchs, for putting in plain language what I always understood intuitively, but could never find the words to express. To understand entropy, you must first understand the human conceptualization of reality itself.

Quotes
"Examining the flow of heat in this way makes it clear that the entropy is the fundamental property that is transported in thermal processes (what in lay terms would be called "heat), and that the temperature is the corresponding potential. The resulting theory of the creation, flow, and balance of entropy provides the foundation of a truly dynamical theory of heat that unites thermodynamics and heat transfer into a single subject." --Tom von Foerster

"The entropy of a substance is a real physical quantity like energy, pressure, temperature that can be measured in a laboratory....

"From the above relation, we can say that the dimensions of heat energy are the same as that of the product of entropy and absolute temperature. Since the gravitational potential energy of a body a mass x height (above some zero level). Hence, if we take temperature (measured above absolute zero) equivalent to height, then entropy corresponds to mass or inertia. therefore, entropy may be thought as thermal inertia which has the same relation with heat motion as mass bears to linerar motion or moment of inertia bears to rotational motion." --R. K. Agrawal

"Clasius does not distinguish between the quantity and the power of heat. Trying to fool the human mind exacts its price --entropy comes in through the back door and takes its revenge." --Hans U. Fuchs


 * People have such a hard time explaining entropy because it requires them to explain how energy can be lost without being destroyed. The reason for this is simple. It is because, while the value of energy remains constant (per the first law of thermodynamics), the value of the restoring force is constantly changing. Science has yet to explain a single force, and so they have a difficult time explaining entropy.