{"id":4142,"date":"2021-06-29T00:20:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T07:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2021-06-29T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:08:18","slug":"arthur-stanley-eddington-on-the-2nd-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/quotes\/arthur-stanley-eddington-on-the-2nd-law","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Stanley Eddington on the 2nd law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell&#8217;s equations &#8211; then so much the worse for Maxwell&#8217;s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation &#8211; well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.\u201d &#8211;Arthur Stanley Eddington <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell&#8217;s equations &#8211; then so much the worse for Maxwell&#8217;s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}