3 papers
physics.hist-ph2026
The principles of neopositivism and the laws of thermodynamics
Didier Lairez
The second law of thermodynamics, which deals with irreversibility and makes the theory so special, is usually considered empirical. The definition of equilibrium as an attractor,…
physics.gen-ph2026
Disentangling Brillouin's negentropy law of information and Landauer's law on data erasure
Didier Lairez
The link between information and energy introduces the observer and their knowledge into the understanding of a fundamental quantity of physics. Two approaches compete to account f…
physics.hist-ph2025
Energy and information: a chronicle of hesitations on the role of the observer in physics
Didier Lairez
Energy has no definition, except that given by a conservation principle which essentially amounts to defining it as the elements of an open list of unknown cardinality. Entropy, id…