High energy proton collisions can be pictured as a roiling sea of quarks and gluons, including short lived virtual particles. At first glance, this ...
Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...
For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the ...
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...
The unique properties of high-entropy alloys make them ideal for hydrogen storage, offering advantages in stability and ...
Pioneers of evolutionary psychology John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett argue that “the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” in a 2003 paper of that very name. The ...