A College Student Accidentally Broke the Laws of Thermodynamics
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A college student allegedly broke the laws of thermodynamics with a new discovery, sparking interest and skepticism.
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If we change our understanding by inverting the relationship of thermodynamics and “entropy”, we will discover thermodynamics is a footnote of entropy rather than the other way around.
Define entropy as “The existential phenomenon of potential distributing over the surface area of negative potential.” Potential is of any kind. Universal forces or the quantified qualified and interrelational fit the view of potential not state interactions. In existential reality (what when mean by Truth right?) the infinite expansion of space time is the rail for every model/system, not the end of the sheet or application under ideal self limiting circumstances.
If we now understand the fundamental entropic force of potential distributing over surface areas, we may work out that a peculiar feature of nickel atoms (of which there are more) affects the surface area distribution of effects.
Nickel atoms do a whole bunch of interesting things (such as spinning indefinitely where not interfered with where in everything else axial torsion will decay.) Other properties simplifying their “quantum dispositioning” (my words) making nickel ideal for fusion applications. Lots of mystery around the behavior of those nickel atoms!
Reconsidering the root force as potential distribution (not only state resolve itself) and potential based manifold surfaces (not state in linear Cartesian space time), we may be taken past the barriers of our referential frames.