Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2023-12 to 2026-07.
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It is more thermally efficient to cool a person directly through conduction than to cool the air in a room through convection.
“any efficiency gains you might get from using an air conditioning system are lost when you factor in that you are chilling the air around you that you are mostly not occupying rather than taking that Cooling and applying it directly to your skin where not only is it not wasted to the room but it's a”
Linus Tech Tips · May 2023 · 1 episode · 3.3M views on this topicEnergy cannot be extracted from a quantum system at its lowest possible energy state because there is no lower energy state to transition into.
“And I don't think you can extract energy out of that lowest energy fluctuation because it needs, to take energy out, you need a lower energy state to land on. And you can't.”
StarTalk · Apr 2026 · 9 episodes · 5.2M views on this topicA spontaneous reaction in isolation is typically exothermic and involves an increase in entropy, which complies with the second law of thermodynamics.
“I'm going to jump into some thermodynamics so pull me back if I go too far once I'm hearing these terms it's easy to see now why people use the chemistry term to refer to Human Relationships right we had spontaneous reaction chemical was in our chemistry use your words not my words they are my words”
StarTalk · May 2024 · 2 episodes · 1.2M views on this topicThe entropy of a black hole is proportional to its surface area.
“so there's this very tight relationship between actually the surface area of a black hole and the amount of stuff that it's eaten which corresponds to the amount of information that that black hole is hiding and so I won't get into the next point but I gotta mention it was this simple observation th”
StarTalk · Jun 2023 · 1 episode · 556K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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