If the ether be an external medium which flows freely through the gas, we might find a difficulty in explaining how it is that the source of radiant … - Ludwig Boltzmann
" "If the ether be an external medium which flows freely through the gas, we might find a difficulty in explaining how it is that the source of radiant heat seems to be in the energy of the gas itself. But I still think it possible that the source of energy of the electric vibrations caused by the impact of two gas molecules in the surrounding ether, may be in the progressive and rotatory energy of the molecule. If the electric states of two molecules differ in their motions of approach and separation, the energy of progressive motion may be transformed into electric energy.
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Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics. He was one of the most important advocates for atomic theory which was still highly controversial.
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If this assumption were correct, our world would return more and more to ; but because the whole universe is so great, it might be probable that at some future time some other world might deviate as far from thermal equilibrium as our world does at present. Then the aforementioned H-curve would form a representation of what takes place in the universe. The summits of the curve would represent the worlds where visible motion and life exist.
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If this theory were to hold good for all phenomena, we should be still a long way off what Faust's famous famulus [Wagner] hoped to attain, viz., to know everything. But the difficulty of enumerating all the material points of the universe, and of determining the law of mutual force for each pair, would be only a quantitative one; nature would be a difficult problem, but not a mystery for the human mind.
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