All fundamental processes are reversible.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- A claim that all fundamental physical processes can be reversed.
- In plain terms
- All basic processes can go backwards.
- What can you take from it?
- Reversibility is a key feature of fundamental laws.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why does this matter?
- What breaks reversibility?
Another view
Macroscopic processes are often irreversible.
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Science is what we have learned about how not to fool ourselves about the way the world is.
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