Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Science Essentials): 24

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Newtonian mechanics changed the way we see the world by turning the concept of force into a precise mathematical framework. The first states that energy cannot be destroyed or created but only transformed; while the second law expresses the fundamental limitations of what energy transformation can achieve in practical terms. The car – now dubbed Life L190 – was ready by February 1990, and tested briefly at Vallelunga and Monza. Thanks to advances in laser trapping, scientists can now watch this microscopic engineering at work. Kelvin, who died 100years ago on 17December1907, became professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow University at the age of 22, and went on to become a quintessential grandee of Victorian science, ennobled peer and holder of a fistful of innovative patents (see “Kelvin: the man behind the title”).

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When the new season came, the team had one chassis, four engines and spare parts, and a spare chassis.Yet there is a different kind of theory of everything that dates back to the middle of the 19th century.

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Ultimately Sir Jack Brabham's son Gary Brabham was signed to drive with Franco Scapini hired as test driver and Sergio Barbasio as team manager. The pioneers of thermodynamics developed their laws based on macroscopic systems that they could describe in terms of “average” quantities such as pressure and temperature.New engine manufacturers entered Formula One (such as Ilmor, Judd and Yamaha), and new ideas broke through. Bustamante’s team stretched the RNA molecule many times with the same energy, and found that its “relaxation path” was different every time. The key question in modern thermodynamics is therefore how far do energy fluctuations push microscopic systems beyond the realm of 19th-century theory?

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Evans’ results therefore demonstrate directly that the interpretation of the second law must be revised when you go beyond the limits of the19th-century theory. However, a decade ago Christopher Jarzynski of the University of Maryland in the US predicted that even profoundly non-equilibrium experiments on single molecules hide mysterious signs of equilibrium.To Jarzynski, this was a surprise because it meant that information about macroscopic equilibrium was somehow buried inside individual, randomly fluctuating microscopic systems far from equilibrium. Over the next decade Kelvin and Clausius, pointed in the right direction by the experiments of James Joule in Manchester, completed Carnot’s tentative definitions of heat and temperature, and so formulated the basis of thermodynamics. These engines have one foot in the equilibrium camp and another in the world of fluctuations and non-equilibrium.

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Those rules depended not on the technology, be it steam power, water power or anything else, but on fundamental quantities such as heat and temperature.The car successfully began the pre-qualifying round, however, on its first lap at Estoril, the engine cover came loose and flew off. The W12 turned out to be the least powerful engine of the year: its output was 480 hp while others produced 600 to 700 hp.