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21:44- SW reads passages from Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu English translation
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200th Anniversary of Sadi Carnot's Réflexions sur la Puissance Motrice du Feu and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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- 1 Start stream
- 2 SW starts talking and begins his presentation
- 3 2:04- History of Sadi Carnot and Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu Part 1, featuring Lord Kelvin and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
- 4 21:44- SW reads passages from Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu English translation
- 5 33:50- SW shares the book on-screen original French version
- 6 37:58- History of Sadi Carnot and Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu Part 2, featuring Lazare Carnot and Napoleon
- 7 57:50- SW reads more passages from Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, including biographical excerpts + unpublished writings of Sadi Carnot
- 8 1:51:40- History of Sadi Carnot and Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu Part 3, featuring the impacts of Carnot's work on future research into thermodynamics
- 9 2:04:20-: SW concludes his presentation
- 10 Q&A begins
- 11 2:06:33- Ah, so Carnot was the original 'new kind of science' guy of his time.
- 12 2:07:02- If you think about it, we mostly still life in the steam ages. Most of the energy we get is steam at one point.
- 13 2:07:29- Why was Carnot's printed with such wasteful borders and only few lines per page?
- 14 2:08:08- What does it mean to discuss the "heat death of the universe" if entropy law only pertains to a closed system? Is this still plausible according to current physics?
- 15 2:10:27- Are there ways to measure the efficiency of a stochastic system using principles derived from Carnot's work on heat engines?
- 16 2:11:49- Heat-Engines were the AI of those times!
- 17 2:12:37- How did scientists deem 'dark matter' to be a real thing?
- 18 2:15:31- Has anyone ever done further investigation into the paper you wrote with Jan Ambjorn on the thermodynamics of the vacuum?
- 19 2:24:37- Is there any link between Carnot's findings and modern information theory?
- 20 2:27:15- SW's closing thoughts
- 21 End stream
