Correction: Thermodynamics: Energy, Heat, and Their Laws
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Topic
- Concepts
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 28 July 2026
The exact change
The article said the second law is the only fundamental law distinguishing past from future, defined entropy as disorder, implied Szilard showed measurement necessarily has a thermodynamic cost, said entropy completely explains memory and causation, and said greenhouse gases are transparent to incoming solar radiation.
Qualified the time-asymmetry and greenhouse claims, refined the entropy definition, corrected the measurement-versus-erasure cost per Landauer and Bennett, and framed the arrow-of-time account as leading rather than complete.
Suggested change
See before/after.
Why this is better
These are physics-accuracy refinements: the statements were common simplifications that overstate settled physics. Corrections align them with the standard understanding rather than adding new sources.
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