User Friendly Thermodynamics

Geek summarizes the three laws of Thermodynamics in User Friendly terminology:

1. You can’t win
2. You can’t break even
3. You’re always playing the game

for the slightly more scientifically minded:

1. The amount of energy in a system never increases.
2. The total entropy of the universe is increasing.
3. You can’t reach absolute zero and absolute zero is the only place where the laws don’t apply.

Advertisement