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“The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth.”

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Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann, born on February 20, 1844, and died on September 5, 1906, was a prominent physicist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He made significant contributions to statistical physics and the kinetic theory of gases. Boltzmann is known for his formulation of Boltzmann's distribution law, which is a fundamental concept in statistical physics, and his statistical interpretation of the second law of thermodynamics. more

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