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Post by General Veers on Mar 3, 2009 23:03:07 GMT -5
Equilibrium is the balance of something.
If you have a heated bar next to a cold bar, there is no equilibrium; however, heat will flow from the heated bar to the cold bar. The system reaches equilibrium when both bars are the same temperature.
If you have a room with a crowd next to an empty room, there is no equilibrium; however, people will flow from the overcrowded room to the empty room. The system reaches equilibrium when both rooms have the same amount of people (or nearly the same if there is an odd number of people).
According to the law of thermodynamics, some work is lost as heat which cannot do work. We will eventually reach a moment of equilibrium where useful work will become impossible since work would take the balanced state out of equilibrium when all things naturally seek equilibrium. There is nothing we can do because we are part of the system. As long as we do work, then some energy used for work will be converted to useless heat.
When an entity is displaced with force applied, work is done.
W=Fs (W is work, F is force, s is displacement)
If nothing is displaced, no work is done. If there is no force acting upon something, no work is done.
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Post by V.I.R.O.S. on Mar 4, 2009 6:39:03 GMT -5
I'm sure that the universe has some type of natural safeguard against heat death.
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Post by The Dark Master on Mar 4, 2009 12:16:17 GMT -5
What?? Natural safeguard? How?
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Post by V.I.R.O.S. on Mar 4, 2009 15:03:29 GMT -5
I have no idea, how. Perhaps the universe has a natural area where heat energy is somehow turned into some other type of energy. *shrug*
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Post by General Veers on Mar 4, 2009 15:37:38 GMT -5
A natural tendency to equilibrium is the safeguard against unnatural imbalance.
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Post by GrandEnder on Mar 4, 2009 16:20:06 GMT -5
Well, AC could make light by saying 'LET THERE BE LIGHT', so we may be able to just avert the destruction of everything.
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Post by GrandEnder on Mar 4, 2009 16:23:57 GMT -5
The universe is suprisingly self-destructive.
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Post by The Dark Master on Mar 4, 2009 16:37:04 GMT -5
According to you and terrorists, yes.
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Post by General Veers on Mar 4, 2009 16:38:23 GMT -5
What is "AC" as used in reply #25?
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Post by The Dark Master on Mar 4, 2009 17:00:17 GMT -5
probably a typo of SC.
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Post by V.I.R.O.S. on Mar 4, 2009 21:49:07 GMT -5
The universe is suprisingly self-destructive. Let's hope not!
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Post by Sandmaster on Mar 9, 2009 15:07:30 GMT -5
Umm.......infinite objects are AT an equilibrium Did you even READ THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE? The object must be at an EQUILIBRIUM to survive. Infinite objects are at an EQUILIBRIUM. The universe is infinite. Therefore, the universe will survive.
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Post by The Dark Master on Mar 24, 2009 12:16:17 GMT -5
No.... If something is infinite, it can nevr each infinity. The universe is at a certain age from its beggining, it is not infinite. And never will be.
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Post by Sandmaster on Mar 25, 2009 8:01:01 GMT -5
Proof plz.
And all infinite objects are at an equilibrium. The heat will flow outwards beyond the object.
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