Listen to a Podcast About Thermodynamics

Master the laws governing energy, heat, and entropy — from steam engines to black holes, thermodynamics explains why time flows forward and sets the ultimate limits of efficiency.

The second law of thermodynamics, formalized by Rudolf Clausius in 1850, states that entropy in an isolated system always increases — providing the only fundamental law of physics that distinguishes past from future and establishing the "arrow of time." Sadi Carnot's 1824 analysis of heat engines established the theoretical maximum efficiency of any engine operating between two temperatures, a limit that no real engine can exceed regardless of engineering improvements. The third law, formulated by Walther Nernst in 1906, states that absolute zero (0 Kelvin, or -273.15 degrees Celsius) can never be reached, though scientists have cooled atoms to within billionths of a degree using laser cooling techniques pioneered in the 1990s.

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