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I could never wrap my head around the abstract concepts used in these explanations because they don't connect to what is actually happening at the atomic level.
by foobarian 2y ago
I could never wrap my head around the abstract concepts used in these explanations because they don't connect to what is actually happening at the atomic level. As far as I could tell the actual particles are undergoing a constant process of reducing the potential energy induced by force fields between them, which means everything is just jiggling all the time and spreading further and further apart. Heat is just some metric describing the aggregate behavior.
- 11101010001100 2y agoThis all applies at the quantum level. Ask your quantum computing friends why we don't have quantum computers yet.
- marcosdumay 2y ago> the actual particles are undergoing a constant process of reducing the potential energy induced by force fields between them Not really. They are in the process of spreading that energy as equally possible through as many fields as they can. What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
- Rury 2y agoPeople overcomplicate the matter. The second law of thermodynamics is fundamentally very simple: things flow towards (or seek) a state of equilibrium. That's it. Entropy is just a measure of equilibrium. All the concepts are like you said, just some behavior exhibiting that.