Ludwig Boltzmann — Order, Chaos, and a Tiny Number
Ludwig Boltzmann wanted to know what entropy meant under the skin. Clausius had named it and measured it; Boltzmann tried to see its atoms. He imagined the invisible ballet of mole…
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Thoughts on Technology, Science, and Beyond
Rudolf Clausius — The Law That Wouldn’t Blink
There is a kind of courage that does not shout. Rudolf Clausius had that quiet courage when he wrote a sentence that changed the way we think about the world: heat cannot of itself…
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France in 1796 was still trembling from the Revolution. The old world was gone, the new world uncertain, and the air was thick with both fear and invention. In that atmosphere a bo…
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