A Full Professor unveils some unusual thermodynamic scenarios in a lecture at the University of Navarra.
Un catedrático desvela algunos escenarios insólitos de la termodinámica en una conferencia en la Universidad de Navarra
A Full Professor unveils some unusual thermodynamic scenarios in a lecture at the University of Navarra.
José Casas Vázquez, Full Professor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, unveiled some unusual thermodynamic scenarios during a lecture at School of Ecclesiastical Studies of the University of Navarra.
"Thermodynamics is a part of physics that deals with energy exchanges and work in physical systems, considering as a system any portion of the universe isolated for study, and without making any hypothesis about the structure of the subject it encloses," explained Professor Hector Mancini, director of high school of Physics at the University of Navarra, who participated in the event.
From this science," he added, "stem the considerations that made it possible to predict, for example, that an expanding universe must be accompanied by a continuous cooling from an extremely hot and dense initial state (the origin of the universe from the Big Bang), or that there is a privileged direction for time, which prevents us from going backwards. In addition to his theoretical contributions to the knowledge of nature, he has guided the development of all the machines that today allow man to travel by land, air and sea, a possibility that only two centuries ago seemed unfeasible".
The activity, framed in the 50th anniversary of the School of Sciences, was organized by the high school of Physics and the group of research Science, Reason and Faith, of which José Casas Vázquez is a member partner.