Recently, a team of researchers made headlines for a stunning announcement: a theoretical breakthrough that expanded our understanding of the first law of thermodynamics. But to understand that result ...

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I recently led a webinar on the laws of thermodynamics, which got me thinking: A business is very much a closed system, such as a universe. Therefore, if entropy is always increasing in a closed ...

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Observing the flow of time at the quantum scale reveals a puzzling energy phenomenon: the energy required to simply read the time astronomically exceeds that consumed by the device's ...