I wrote a brief philosophical sci-fi short story called “The Second Law of Pyrodynamics” that uses a fictional world to explore many topics in thermodynamics, including: • Heat death • Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and dissipative systems • Maxwell’s demon • Landauer’s principle • Poincaré recurrence • And the fate of the universe…
“We have known for two centuries now that the Eternal Flame will eventually be extinguished. And when it does, everything will cease to exist….”