physical laws

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physical laws

Encyclopedia of scientific principles, laws, and theories

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on key principles, laws, theories, hypotheses, and concepts in the history of the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology, and mathematics.

Four laws that drive the universe

2007
Suggests that all of life is governed by the four Laws of Thermodynamics, which includes the concept of temperature, the conservation of energy, the increase in entropy, and the unattainablitiy of zero; and discusses free energy and other related topics.

The book of universes

exploring the limits of the cosmos
2011
Describes potential universes, such as ones that spin and bounce or multiply without limit, that physicists and mathematicians have hypothesized may exist based on Einstein's theory of relativity.
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