...implications of reversibility for physical phenomena. With regard to animate nature, Thomson amplified: if also the materialistic hypothesis of life were...the full explanation of the theory of dissipation of energy.26 He, like Maxwell, then turned to a discussion of 'demons', though on the grand scale of armies,...

...life were true, living creatures would grow backward, with conscious knowledge of the future but with no memory of the past, and would become again, unborn....explanation of the theory of dissipation of energy. This brilliant statement indicates definitely that Lord Kelvin would also be classed in our group B,...

...and would become again unborn. But the real phenomena of life infinitely transcend human science, aud speculation regarding consequences of their imagined...dissipation of energy, the conduction of heat through a solid—consider a bar of metal warmer at one end than the other, and left to itself. To avoid all...

...having been originally published in the Proceedings of the RoyaBociety of Edinburgh for February, 1874. transcend human science ; and speculation regarding...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of th« theory of dissipation of energy. To take one of the simplest cases of the dissipation of energy,...

...of life infinitely transcend human science, and speculation regarding consequences of their ultimate reversal is utterly unprofitable. Far otherwise, however,...consideration of which leads to the full explanation of this theory of dissipation of energy."f He goes on to explain in graphic terms how an army of Maxwell's...