
215 | Barry Loewer on Physics, Counterfactuals, and the Macroworld
From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 10/24/2022

From Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Published 10/24/2022
The founders of statistical mechanics in the 19th century faced an uphill battle to convince their fellow physicists that the laws of thermodynamics could be derived from the random motions of microscopic atoms. This insight turns out to be even more important than they realized: the emergence of…