Thermodynamics

The science of energy, heat and work and their limits: the conservation of energy, the growth of entropy, and the work available from difference (exergy). Founded by Carnot (1824), Clausius and Kelvin (1850s); bridged to statistical mechanics by Boltzmann.

RENAISSANCE 3.0 POSITION: the physics of the flame. Life as slow fire, order fed by flow (Schrödinger), and the membrane as a harvester of difference (exergy, plastexergy) in Caring like a Fire and The First Membrane.

· 1824– · active