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Cosmology
A branch of astronomy that deals specifically with the origins and chronology of the universe. Physical cosmology deals with the actual origins of the physical universe, while religious or mythical cosmology deals with the purpose and reason for the universe. It comes from the Greek “kosmos” which…
Maxwell’s Demon
This was a theory that devised a way the Second Law of Thermodynamics might be circumvented. That law says that heat energy cannot be created, it can only be transferred. In 1847, James Clerk Maxwell came up with this idea – Say you had a box with two sides, separated by a gate. A demon would watch…