...Energy “i, in which he states the three following propositions as conclusions which he had drawn :¿ 1. “There is at present in the material world a...processes, and is probably never effected by means of organised matter, either endowed with vegetable life or subjected to the will of an animated creature.”...

...vegetable bodies' which up to this point he had excluded from direct discussion. First, he proclaimed that 'There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy'. Though presented here simply as another deduction, this conclusion in fact expressed Thomson's fundamental...

...energy' into the energy of motion of the particles of the conductor. Thomson drew a general conclusion: 'There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy'.23 In drafting his paper 'On the dynamical theory of gases' early in 1866, Maxwell considered...

...The permanent vacation of heat was expressed straightforwardly in the second law of thermodynamics: "Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more...than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible" (514). Here again Thomson insisted on waste's inescapability: even the futile effort at restoration...

...oder lang all jener Temperaturdifferenzen werde verlustig gehen, die bislang Leben möglich machten. There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. [...] Within a fmite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time...

...this viewpoint, Thomson stated that (1) There is a universal tendency at present in the material world to the dissipation of mechanical energy; (2) any restoration of mechanical energy is impossible without the dissipation of a greater amount of energy; and (3) that "Within a finite...

...University. In a monumental paper read to the Royal Society of Edinburgh he reached two main conclusions: 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. In reaching these conclusions Thomson explained, in effect, that mechanical or electrical energy could...

...note in April 1852, embodying the following momentous and carefully formulated conclusions* : — " 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means...

...that I felt quite wooden beside him sometimes." A year later Helmholtz again met the Thomsons at • " There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. Within a finite period of time past the earth must have been and within a finite period of time to...