Ah, it's basic thermodynamics. I'm sure we can figure that out.

只是很基础的热力学，我们俩肯定能搞定。

Once you've got a bit of thermodynamics with the duck, you can also explain fridges.

一旦你鸭子有一点热力学的解，你也可以解冰箱。

One of the main goals of thermodynamics is to describe the transfer of energy.

热力学的主要目标之一 它是能量转移的描述。

Last time, we talked about the four types of basic thermodynamic processes.

上次我们讲类型 简单热力学过程的主体。

Well sometimes the reverse reaction isn't as thermodynamic spontaneous for one reason or another.

好吧，有时由于某原因，逆反应不是热力学自发的。

The contracting phase will be unsuitable because it has no strong thermodynamic arrow of time.

收缩阶段将是不合适的，因为它没有很强的热力学时间箭头。

This would explain the existence of the thermodynamic arrow of time.

将解热力学时间箭头的存在。

A process at the heart of thermodynamics which seemed to hold much promise for an ambitious young man.

是一个热力学核心的过程，于一个雄心勃勃的年轻人来说似乎大有希望。

However, a strong thermodynamic arrow is necessary for intelligent life to operate.

然而，要让智能生命运行，需要强大的热力学箭头。

Greene takes one of his most powerful whacks at entropy, attacking the nettlesome business of the second law of thermodynamics

格林，个令人头疼的热力学第二定律发起他最猛烈的攻击。

According to the Ideal Gas Law, P-V N-R-T, pressure and temperature has a positive correlation, meaning they increase and decrease together.

根据理想气体定律，PV=NRT[br]（P理想气体压强，V理想气体体积，N气体物质的量，R理想气体常数，T理想气体的热力学温度）压强和温度呈正相关，意味着它们同时增加或减少。

Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics, the branch of physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy.

永动机的想法都违反热力学的一个或多个基本定律，热力学是描述不同形式能量之间关系的物理学分支。

Your body is a biological machine that follows  the laws of thermodynamics and needs energy and raw materials to stay alive, which is why you eat.

你的身体是一台遵循热力学定律的生物机器， 需要能量和原材料来维持生命，就是你吃东西的原因。

In 1875-78, Gibbs produced a series of papers, collectively titled, On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, that dazzlingly elucidated the thermodynamic principles of, well, nearly everything.

1875-78 年，吉布斯发表一系列论文，统称为《论异质物质的平衡》，令人眼花缭乱地阐明几乎所有事物的热力学原理。

Calories in calories out, it's a rule of physics — of thermodynamics, so it is, of course, correct... but when it comes to understanding weight loss, it's practically irrelevant.

只要卡路里消耗大于摄入就可以减肥，作为热力学的一项基本法则，当然没错......但要真正理解减肥原理，一法则实际上毫不相干。

Even if engineers could somehow design a machine that didn't violate the first law of thermodynamics, it still wouldn't work in the real world because of the second law.

即使工程师能以某方式设计出不违反热力学第一定律的机器，由于第二定律，它仍然无法在现实世界中工作。

The no boundary proposal for the universe predicts the existence of a well-defined thermodynamic arrow of time because the universe must start off in a smooth and ordered state.

宇宙无边界提议预测明确定义的热力学时间箭头的存在，因为宇宙必须以平稳有序的状态开始。

Planck didn't listen. He studied theoretical physics and threw himself body and soul into work on entropy, a process at the heart of thermodynamics, which seemed to hold much promise for an ambitious young man.

普朗克不听，他钻研理论物理学，潜心投入热力学的核心问题——的研究工作。在一个雄心勃勃的年轻人看来，研究个问题似乎很有前途。

He never accepted the revised figures and to his dying day believed his work on the age of the Earth his most astute and important contribution to science, far greater than his work on thermodynamics.

他拒不接受那个修改的数字，直到临终那天还认为自己算出的地球年龄是科学最有眼光、最重要的贡献，要比他在热力学方面的成果重要得多。

Also, if you're  wondering about its relation to all of that second law of thermodynamics stuff from physics, there  definitely is a connection, but in its origins Shannon was just dealing with pure probability  theory.

另外，如果你想知道它与物理学中所有热力学第二定律的关系，那么肯定存在某联系， 但香农在其起源中只是处理纯概率论。