Water escaping via the plughole creates a low-entropy vortex
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Molecular Storms
Liam Graham (Springer Link)
UNLIKE quantum or particle physics, thermodynamics rarely makes headlines, yet it is crucial for understanding how life arose and how the universe containing that life will end. This is at the heart of Molecular Storms: The physics of stars, cells and the origin of life by physicist-turned-economist Liam Graham.
His grand tour of the physical world leaves little unexamined, starting with simple systems of gas molecules in a box, moving to the smallest, simplest living cells,…
