Midsummer Night’s Dream
March 3rd, 2010
Recently I have been working of an essay revolving around C. P. Snow’s 1959 Rede Lecture titled ‘The Two Cultures’. In the lecture Snow says that describing the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the scientific equivalent of having read a work of Shakespeare’s. Almost everybody has read some Shakespeare during his or her life however few could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Snow goes on to suggest this is representative of the dichotomy. Which is a load of old tosh since the only reason few know that the rate of change entropy with respect to time is greater than or equal to zero for an an isolated system is because the law is rarely referenced in the media but Shakespeare is, for example by this Disney cartoon.
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