Ah, it's basic thermodynamics. I'm sure we can figure that out.

只是很基础的力学，我们俩肯定能搞定。

Greene takes one of his most powerful whacks at entropy, attacking the nettlesome business of the second law of thermodynamics

格林对熵，对个令人头疼的力学第二定律发起了他最猛烈的攻击。

According to the Ideal Gas Law, P-V N-R-T, pressure and temperature has a positive correlation, meaning they increase and decrease together.

根据理想气体定律，PV=NRT[br]（P理想气体压强，V理想气体体积，N气体物质的量，R理想气体常数，T理想气体的力学温度）压强和温度呈正相关，着它们同时增加或减少。

However, a strong thermodynamic arrow is necessary for intelligent life to operate.

然而，要让智能生命运行，需要强大的力学箭头。

Once you've got a bit of thermodynamics with the duck, you can also explain fridges.

一旦你对鸭子有了一点力学的了，你也释冰箱。

Well sometimes the reverse reaction isn't as thermodynamic spontaneous for one reason or another.

有时，逆反应由于某些原因并不是力学上自发的。

And so there's a sort of almost a thermodynamic idea at the root of this.

因此，背后几乎有一个力学的概念。

One of the main goals of thermodynamics is to describe the transfer of energy.

力学的主要目标之一 它是对能量转移的描述。

Last time, we talked about the four types of basic thermodynamic processes.

上次我们讲了四种类型 简单力学过程的主体。

This would explain the existence of the thermodynamic arrow of time.

将释力学时间箭头的存在。

Congrats, now you know enough thermodynamics to figure out global warming.

恭喜，现在你已经掌握了足够的力学知识，理全球变暖的原理了。

The contracting phase will be unsuitable because it has no strong thermodynamic arrow of time.

收缩阶段将是不合适的，因为它没有很强的力学时间箭头。

A process at the heart of thermodynamics which seemed to hold much promise for an ambitious young man.

是一个力学核心的过程，对于一个雄心勃勃的年轻人来说似乎大有希望。

Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics, the branch of physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy.

永动机的想法都违反了力学的一个或多个基本定律，力学是描述不同形式能量之间关系的物理学分支。

We know from the second law of thermodynamics in physics that energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transferred from one form to another.

根据物理学中的力学第二定律， 能量既不能被创造也不能被消灭，只能从一种形式转化为另一种形式。

Calories in calories out, it's a rule of physics — of thermodynamics, so it is, of course, correct... but when it comes to understanding weight loss, it's practically irrelevant.

只要卡路里消耗大于摄入就减肥，作为力学的一项基本法则，当然没错......但要真正理减肥原理，一法则实际上毫不相干。

Even if engineers could somehow design a machine that didn't violate the first law of thermodynamics, it still wouldn't work in the real world because of the second law.

即使工程师能某种方式设计出不违反力学第一定律的机器，由于第二定律，它仍然无法在现实世界中工作。

And it's interesting because if we only take into account what I was telling you, the surface tension, this is a property that is purely thermodynamical.

很有趣， 因为如果我们只考虑我刚才告诉你的表面张力，是一种纯粹的力学性质。

In 1875-78, Gibbs produced a series of papers, collectively titled, On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, that dazzlingly elucidated the thermodynamic principles of, well, nearly everything.

1875-78 年，吉布斯发表了一系列论文，统称为《论异质物质的平衡》，令人眼花缭乱地阐明了几乎所有事物的力学原理。

So, in  the language of thermodynamics, it's a reduction in entropy, so things can get more ordered, as  long as you pay the price in the environment.

因此， 用力学的语言来说，是熵的减少， 事物变得更加有序，只要你愿在环境中付出相应的代价。