Friday, April 6, 2012

The Three Thermodynamic-keteers :O

Everything in nature must obey what the Three Thermodynamic-keteers say.


The First Musketeer-Conserving Mass and Energy


The first musketeer named Energio says that, "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed."



With that being said, if Energio eats lettuce, the calories from the lettuce is used to provide energy for Energio so that he can fight off the bad guys. So no new energy was created for Energio to fight. He simply got it from the calories of the lettuce. 


Iceberg Lettuce Clip ArtSimilarly, the energy from the lettuce was not lost because Energio's body transformed it into another form of energy in order for him to fight. It could have been simply turned into a form of sound energy from his yells during the fight. As you can see, energy was neither created for Energio nor destroyed for the lettuce, but was rather transformed from calories into sound energy. 



The Second Musketeer-The Law of Entropy


The second musketeer named Chaotic claims that, "All disorder, chaos or randomness creates more disorder, chaos or randomness."


For example, the following changes in state....


solid--> liquid
solid--> gas
liquid--> gas

.... will always exhibit the second law of entropy because as you can see from the diagram on the left, the organization from the solid phase to the gas phase gets more random, disordered, and chaotic and ultimately increases entropy.


Chaotic describes that entropy happens in our bodies when we take in the energy from the lettuce (the solid sugars aka glucose) and we breath the oxygen gas in the air which turns into carbon dioxide gas and liquid water. The reaction that has happened in our body called cellular respiration goes from a solid + a gas --> a liquid + a gas. So wouldn't you agree that entropy has increased?




The Third Musketeer-Absolute Zero


The third musketeer named Zero states that, "At absolute zero, all thermal molecular motion is removed."


This is Zero's reasoning: He claims that he is so hot that when everybody sees him, they offer their heat to him so that he can become even hotter. Without the heat, the people die and disappear, ceasing to exist. 


Having all thermal molecular motion be removed means that our bodies will be at a very low temperature and will be nonexistent, so enzymes that are part of metabolic processes cannot work.  



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