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From: Lee Sawyer
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:06
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:06
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In article <1992Apr16.004905.7468@news.Hawaii.Edu>, vijay@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Vijay writes...
>Here are some of interesting quotes.
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>From John Barrow's book "World within the world" :
> 1st law of thermo. says : you can't win
> 2 nd law of thermo says : you can't break even.
> zeroeth law says : you can't even get out of the game!
>
I have heard varients of this. It has seemed to me that the so-called
third law of thermodynamics, dealing with the unattainability of absolute
zero, is more on the lines of "You can't get out of the game". The "zeroth
law" just says that two systems in thermal equilibrium with a third system
are in thermal equilibrium with each other.
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