Excitment and Discovery
December 6th, 2004 02:29 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
For those of you who last took a physics course sometime around the megolithic period, allow me to refresh your memory of the first two laws of thermodynamics (these definitions courtesy of Michael Flanders and Donald Swan).
1.) Heat is work and work is heat.
2.) Heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body.
Well, what is it? I hear you cry. What is this new law and how will it shape our view of the world in years to come? Without further to-do, we give you the ( Third Law of Thermodynamics )
I don't know whether my partner intends to pursue further research in the field. Personally, I will attempt to disprove the 2nd law by demonstrating that it is possible for my body heat to pass to the body of an extremely hot guy, thus proving that heat can pass from one body to a hotter body. So far tests are on hold for want of subjects.
In the meantime, we modestly await our nobel (or ignobel) prize.