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Full Idea
The first law of thermodynamics : energy can be changed from one form to another, but is always conserved overall.
Gist of Idea
First Law: energy can change form, but is conserved overall
Source
Frank Close (Theories of Everything [2017], 3 'Perpetual')
Book Ref
Close,Frank: 'Theories of Everything' [Profile Books 2017], p.27
A Reaction
So we have no idea what energy is, but we know it's conserved. (Daniel Bernoulli showed the greater the mean energy, the higher the temperature. James Joule showed the quantitative equivalence of heat and work p.26-7)
20969 | Early Newtonians could not formulate conservation of energy, having no concept of potential energy [Newton, by Papineau] |
20965 | Leibniz upheld conservations of momentum and energy [Leibniz, by Papineau] |
20973 | All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau] |
20623 | First Law: energy can change form, but is conserved overall [Close] |
20975 | Quantum 'wave collapses' seem to violate conservation of energy [Papineau] |
21211 | If an expected reaction does not occur, that implies a conservation law [Martin,BR] |