Compared to other scientific laws, the second law of thermodynamics lacks effective "quantitative" experimental support.
- Energy dissipation, directional, without effective “quantitative experimental output”, cannot effectively support the second law of thermodynamics. See image for details
- The second law of thermodynamics is just an empirical illusion, not a natural science.
- Science follows rules and procedures
The second law of thermodynamics says, depending on the formulation, that you can't create a machine with an efficiency higher than the ideal gas Carnot efficiency or that has dS
Bo Miao The reason for the entropy increase of closed systems, in apparent conflict with the unitarity of Hamiltonian evolutions (preserving information) is the lack of information (relevant entropy) of macroscopic observers [1]. The interpretation of the second principle and the flow of time as illusions [2] amounts to a realist interpretation of physics in a deterministic universe endowed with objective laws and properties, denying the central role of the macroscopic observer and its only intersubjective macroscopic observables.
So, the thermodynamical statistical grid of reading of macroscopic observers (living beings) is the basis of irreversible evolutions, second principle of thermodynamics, irreversibility and indeterminism of quantum measurements and existence of traces of the past...
...hence of any information allowing us to ascribe physical laws and properties to the universe.
You will find more references concerning entropy, the second law of thermodynamics and the flow of time in thePreprint The arrow of time issue, an overview
, B. Chaverondier, April 2023[1] Article Incomplete descriptions and relevant entropies
, R. Balian, Am. J. Phys. 67, 1078 (1999)[2] "The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". Einstein, 1955, in a condolence letter to the family of his best friend and collaborator Michele Besso.
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