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Full Idea
Thermodynamics reinforced a vision of nature as one of harmonious flow. Energy, which could be neither created nor destroyed, flowed continuously between radiation and material substance, in themselves unbroken continua.
Gist of Idea
Thermodynamics sees nature as a continuous flow of energy, as radiation and as substance
Source
Jim Baggott (The Quantum Story: 40 moments [2011], 01)
Book Ref
Baggott,Jim: 'The Quantum Story' [OUP 2016], p.7
A Reaction
Interestingly, Einstein's Special Relativity e = mc2 seems to endorse this view, by equation energy and mass. I've always wanted to know what energy is, but no one seems to know.
| 24160 | Particle measurements don't seem to reflect their reality [Baggott] |
| 24161 | Thermodynamics sees nature as a continuous flow of energy, as radiation and as substance [Baggott] |
| 24162 | Planck introduced the idea that energy can be quantized [Baggott] |
| 24163 | Free electrons have clouds of virtual particles, arising from field interaction [Baggott] |