The second law of thermodynamics demands that if we want to make a clock more precise – thereby reducing the disorder, or entropy, in the system – we must add energy to it. Any increase in energy, ...

The second law of thermodynamics; memoirs by Carnot, Clausius, and Thomson by Magie, William Francis, 1858-1943, tr. and ed; Carnot, Sadi, 1796-1832; Clausius, R. (Rudolf), 1822-1888; Kelvin, William ...