Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion, and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe.


Macmillan's Magazine (5 March 1862)

William Thomson Quotes

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual...

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual...

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual...

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual...