16th February 2016
Dennis Overbye and his atypical view on the laws of thermodynamics
Dennis Overbye is a science correspondent for the New York Times. He presented a humorous summary of the three principal laws of thermodynamics in his book Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe published in 1991. The crux of the three laws of thermodynamics are simply stated as follows:
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