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New interpretations suggest the "heat death" hypothesis might not hold (2023)

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52 points hhs | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 15:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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hungmung ◴[30 Aug 25 16:44 UTC] No.45076009[source]▶
Slightly tangential, but does anyone know of a good layman's book on thermodynamics? I'm interested in the science and the history of it, but I'm not really trying to do a deep dive into the math -- I wasn't bad in stats or calc but that was decades ago now and I haven't really used them since...
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1. jzl ◴[30 Aug 25 17:36 UTC] No.45076488[source]▶
“From Eternity To Here” by Sean Carroll has some nice discussions of it. He can be a bit much at times and could stand to have better editing (the book is 25% too long), but he does have some of the most approachable modern writing on physics out there. Lots of videos on YouTube as well.