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the universe's house rules, and the house always wins, slowly cooling everything to dust
means The branch of physics that studies how heat, energy, and work move and transform, governed by a handful of strict laws about energy and entropy.
from A 19th-century scientific compound stitched from Greek thermē, 'heat' (the same root warming thermometer and thermal), and dynamis, 'power' or 'force' (a cousin of dynamic and dynamite). The word was forged as engineers and physicists tried to understand steam engines — literally the science of heat-in-motion — before it grew into the law that governs the fate of stars.
- first law
- energy never created or destroyed, only relocated
- second law
- disorder always grows; you cannot win or break even
- absolute zero
- unreachable, no matter how hard you try
- heat death
- the universe's final, lukewarm, motionless fate
- steam engines
- the messy machines that birthed the whole science