The first question I answer in the affirmative, but the second belongs not so much to ordinary physics (let us call it orthophysics) as to... metaphy… - Ludwig Boltzmann

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.

The possibility of the transference of energy being so gradual cannot be denied, if we also attribute to the ether so little friction that the Earth is not sensibly retarded by moving through it for many hundreds of years.

Eleganz sei die Sache der Schuster und Schneider