Deutsch English Français Italiano |
<thermodynamics-20240620102320@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> View for Bookmarking (what is this?) Look up another Usenet article |
Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.physics.research Subject: Re: Energy - the "hot potato"? Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:39:40 PDT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 58 Approved: Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" <dr.j.thornburg@gmail-pink.com (sci.physics.research) Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: <thermodynamics-20240620102320@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> References: <Energy-20240618120905@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <v4u90r$1tfsp$1@dont-email.me> X-Trace: individual.net jIGVhb0KeOmZ0VX3DZ45GAwmK5lYa1Ol7E0pfS+t8x1WFajkXwhb0lQYkn Cancel-Lock: sha1:C5/LxnQGLUQcFwDfYEPDKXB2IYU= sha256:8iz7K7reLM3I18kFa5UkXQIBn978d6uwJNe0Lscm0Ts= X-Forwarded-Encrypted: i=2; AJvYcCUXRbf8h5K0EgJOAyPVz8/ltnkFnG62zcYW7Wdq6mSysUh3LSU0uoYHlUujnNWGwKzSNyENsx9b8FHS8Y64J4l+nKSx4yd3QGE= X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Y5C971VxUX6vXy4RkKVCjwrf8zGxN35agp6hh/iNKbA4C0 X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some X-No-Html: yes X-ZEDAT-Hint: RO Bytes: 3880 Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> wrote or quoted: >On 2024-06-18 18:25:10 +0000, Stefan Ram said: >>. Here's a quotation from "Quora": .. . . >>|It turns out that it is a general law of nature that physical >>|systems always "want" to be in the state of lowest possible >>|energy. .. . . >Not exactly. The law is that entropy always increases, which means >that energy becomes more evenly distributed. The heat death (the conversion of all forms of energy into heat energy) is rather something long-term, but one can also be interested in the dynamics within shorter periods of time. At the system boundaries, the flow of extensive quantities is determined by the difference of the intensive quantities (potentials). Thus, (positive) electric charge (extensive quantity) flows, for example, from the system with the higher electric potential (intensive quantity) to the system with the smaller electric potential. Yes, and in doing so, the total energy in the two systems would become smaller. But since energy must not be destroyed, it must be converted into another form. If the systems cannot exchange any other forms of energy, then only the generation of entropy remains. And it then flows rather to the colder of the two systems. So you were right insofar as one must take entropy into account. Here is the formulation with potential differences, once without and once with "want": Without "want": When two systems come into contact, an extensive quantity flows to the system with the smaller associated potential. With "want": Every system wants to give off its extensive quantities (which reduces its energy), but this is only possible if the system finds another system in which the potential associated with the extensive quantity is smaller. If we regard a system with a small potential as "weak" and a system with a large potential as "strong", we can say that every system wants to impose its energy in the form of extensive quantities on other systems, but it only succeeds in doing so if it finds a weaker system. The concept of the thermodynamic potential, which determines the direction of the flow of extensive quantities, was still missing from your explanations. (I'm not particularly interested in the Higgs field itself, as I wrote, but if I imagine the Higgs field and another field, and each wants to give away its energy, then I can't find suitable forms of energy with their associated extensive and intensive quantities that would help me predict the temporal evolution.)