Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time (opens in new tab)

Thermodynamics is the science of heat and temperature. In English, the term “thermo-dynamic” was first used by William Thomson in 1849 to describe a steam engine that converted heat into work. That is an appropriate introduction because the scientific development of classical thermodynamics is intimately associated with the industrial revolution and the desire to improve the efficiency of engines that turned heat into motion. In the mid-nineteenth century, Rudolf Clausius in Germany and Willi...