...equilibrinm. This doctrine is stated by Sir William Thomson (now Lord Kelvin) in the following terms : — "(1) There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy.1 "(2) Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation,...

...question, as it falls within the legitimate purview of his professional lines of investigation. He says : " (1.) There is at present, in the material world, a universal tendency to dissipation of energy. "(2.) Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than equivalent dissipation,...

...phenomena," and yet in regard to the planetary system Lord Kelvin has formulated his conclusions thus: — " 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by material...

...and yet in regard to the planetary system Lord Kelvin has formulated his conclusions thus: — " i. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by material...

...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...

...energy formulated by Lord Kelvin, in a short note in 1852,1 expressed the opinion that they are not: — "(1) There is at present in the material world a universal...more than an equivalent dissipation, is impossible by inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means of organised matter, either...

..."Mathematical and Physical Papers " (Cambridge, 1882, Vol. i, p. 514), the Law of Dissipation runs thus : — " 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means...

...heat discharged from the condenser. The paper concludes with the following three propositions :-p1. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, withoiut more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and...

...organised matter, either endowed with vegetable life or subject to the will of an animated creature. "(1) There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. "(3) Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time...

...lecturer concluded by summing up in the following terms [quoted from the paper of 1852, see p. 290] : — (1) There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of energy. (2) Any restoration of energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible...