Aircraft engines work better at higher temperatures. As they get hotter, they burn fuel more efficiently, which means they can fly farther on the same volume of propellant. But they can’t get too hot ...
FROM time to time controversies have appeared in various journals regarding that most difficult of all physical conceptions—entropy. I have purposely avoided passing any opinions as to the merits of ...
A recent study proposes that gravity, the force shaping galaxies and anchoring planets, might not be fundamental after all. Instead, it could arise from entropy, a measure of disorder. The theory, ...