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Volume 12: Number 2: Article 5

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Four Paradoxes Involving the Second Law of Thermodynamics

D.P. Sheehan, Department of Physics, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 92110

Recently four independent paradoxes have been proposed which appear to challenge the second law of thermodynamics [1-8]. These paradoxes are briefly reviewed. It is shown that each paradox results from a synergism of two broken symmetries — one geometric, one thermodynamic.

Keywords: physics, thermodynamics

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Four Paradoxes Involving the Second Law of Thermodynamics

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