Dr. Ludwig Boltzmann: The Disordered Physicist

Dec 31, 2025
1h 5m

Episode Description

Why do certain things never happen in reverse? A shattered glass does not spontaneously reform, a spray of perfume doesn't concentrate back into it's bottle... but why not? In the Part III of our December Thermodynamics series (the final part!) Aarati tells us the story of the physicist who understood the true nature of entropy.

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