
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Boltzmann , Ludwig (1974), Theoretical physics and philosophical problems, Springer, Retrieved on 2012-01-19Source Material [books.google.com]
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19 JAN 2012
A System Cannot Return to Its Original State Left to Itself
Since a given system can never of its own accord go over into another equally probable state but into a more probable one, it is likewise impossible to construct a system of bodies that after traversing various states returns periodically to its original state, that is a perpetual motion machine.Folksonomies: thermodynamics
Folksonomies: thermodynamics
To do so would create a perpetual motion machine.
19 JAN 2012
Evolving Methods of Science
A closer look at the course followed by developing theory reveals for a start that it is by no means as continuous as one might expect, but full of breaks and at least apparently not along the shortest logical path. Certain methods often afforded the most handsome results only the other day, and many might well have thought that the development of science to infinity would consist in no more than their constant application. Instead, on the contrary, they suddenly reveal themselves as exhauste...Science does not progress smoothly through the constant application of a single method, but the methods change and there is conflict between generations.