Mark Blasini

Thoughts & Outlooks

A conditionalist interpretation of the laws of thermodynamics

Definitions:

1. Energy: The potential (capacity) for expression.
2. Work: The relationship between energy and expression.
3. System: A defined space in which a specific set of expressions can occur.
4. Internal energy: The total energy available for a system to exist.
5. Temperature: The relationship between a system's internal energy and its capacity for work.
6. Interaction: The expression (or occurrence) of work between two or more systems.
7. Heat: The relationship between the temperatures of two or more interacting systems.

1. Existence is conditional.
2. All beings strive to express themselves - to manifest the relationship between their underlying conditions.
3. What a being can express, it will express.

1. Work can only occur through interaction.
2. Interaction requires the use of energy.
3. Systems are formed through interaction.
4. Every interaction always expresses heat.
5. The total internal energies and capacities for work of two or more interacting systems form, respectively, the internal energy and capacity for work of one system, of which each of the interacting systems becomes a part.