A visual of the the Clausius postulate, namely that the constancy of energy and the tendency towards energy increase governs the operation of the universe; term clarified in the sense of the 2014 University of Dublin Science Gallery atheist Christmas (see: atheist holiday) card motto: “All I want for Christmas is a rational view of a universe by physical laws”. (Ѻ)(Ѻ) |
“For the present I will confine myself to the statement of one result. If for the entire universe we conceive the same magnitude to be determined, consistently and with due regard to all circumstances, which for a single body I have called entropy, and if at the same time we introduce the other and simpler conception of energy, we may express in the following manner the fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat: first, that the energy of the universe is constant, second that the entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.”