Re: Thermodynamics [was Re: photochemical advance]

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 00:40:45 MST


At 11:22 PM 12/10/01 -0800, Spike wrote:

>Are not atoms perpetual motion machines?

No, because they're not doing any work. And/or you can't extract any work
out of their zero point jitterings and spinnings, which is what I guess you
mean.

Damien Broderick



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