Sadi Carnot finds
thermodynamics by jove,
spanner in his hand.
The shredders
encoded correspondence
informs black holes.
In a cold vacuum
acceleration makes heat,
rub or no rub.
Trading energy
Hawking radiation
bankrupts black holes.
Under pressure
Gravity's alias slipped.
Entropy emerged.
Gravity tried for
disorderly conduct,
Entropy serves Time.
THERMODYNAMICS in brief
Thriftless steam engines tested Carnot's mind.
‘Heat always leaks', was Lord Kelvin's sage claim.
‘Entropy', Clausius declared ‘must climb'.
Rules of disorder propelled Boltzmann's fame.
Maxwell protested that Life bucks the trend.
Old-school smooth ceded to Planck's quantized chunks.
Dexterous Caratheodory fixed ends.
‘You concur', Eddington warned ‘or you flunk'.
New coding by Shannon bumped things along,
Aided by Landauer's lateral thought.
Maxwell's forked demon met Bennett's sharp prongs.
‘Is gravity', Jacobson asked ‘here caught'?
Cloaked in the guise of undetermined force,
Second Law guides the Universal course.