A Philosophical Case for Holding That the Second Law of Thermodynamics Is Only a Special Law of Nature, and Not a Universal Law
摘要
Even despite A.S. Eddington’s stern warning to the effect that any serious theoretical challenge to the universality of The Second Law of Thermodynamics will end in “deepest humiliation” (Eddington, 1929: p. 74), in this chapter I argue that The Second Law is only a special law of nature, and not a universal law of nature.