My Notes:
Also: Photon-Mass-Energy links
Relativity: At speed of light the mass of matter swell to infinity, lengths shrink to zero, and clocks stop recording time.
MIT Meeting the Entropy Challenge-Panel Discussion Questions: http://mit.edu/keenansymposium/program/panel-questions/index.html
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/529 > Symposium organizer George Hatsopoulos wraps up by noting “that as far as I know in thermodynamics, there is no statement that says the Second Law implies the increase of entropy. The Second Law only says that the entropy cannot decrease, but there’s nothing wrong with entropy staying put.” We have evidence that in some cases it appears the entropy increases, but that’s not the “Second Law.”
Signe Kjelstrup argues that mesoscopic nonequilibrium thermodynamics (MNET) can address a longstanding problem in classical nonequilibrium thermodynamics, by addressing “activated processes.” Biological systems have heat flow, says Kjelstrup, and “that is as of yet not included in the description of enzyme kinetics. It should be there to quantify lost work in these important systems.”
“An important question arising in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is not just entropy but temperature,” says David Jou, in particular, “the physical meaning of temperature.” Jou invokes the extended thermodynamics of viscoelastic systems, and looks for a simple model valid for a modest range of equations.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/497 > To George Hatsopoulos, Keenan was “my mentor, my friend…His intuition was so unbelievably right; he always led me the right way.” Hatsopoulos shares personal anecdotes about Keenan’s rigorous thinking and precision with language, and offers two short video clips taken by Keenan’s daughter shortly before his death that reveal his method of inquiry. Hatsopoulos suggests that were Keenan alive, he would ask the symposium presenters and audience the following question: “Is entropy an intrinsic property of any system, whether microscopic or macroscopic, whether in a state of equilibrium or nonequilibrium? “
Elementary particle collision is elastic/reversible (inertial energy conserved along with momentum), however for structural particles (made of more elementary particles) the inertial/bulk energy will in part or in whole (if bound) be redistributed/dissipated within the structure (be intrinsic within and increase the inertial mass accordingly) wile bulk momentum must be conserved