I know the *base* of the story, every single system doing any kind of work leads to a certain loss of energy, basically what makes perpetual motion machines impossible, as without pumping more energy into the system, the one it already have will eventually all be exchanged in the form of friction and whatnot.
But I want to go to the *fundamentals*, why is it like that? Why is it impossible? Why can’t we imagine a hypothetical machine made with whatever unobtainium we might need that is actually, mathematically energetically perfectly efficient? *Why did heat beat us? xd*
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Something has to happen within the system for it to be a system. As soon as you imagine a perfect system say, A affects B and B affects A. Even if you’d say, all energy from A is transferred to B and back again you’d have to deal with the fact that Both A and B prefer the lowest state of energy. That results in an equilibrium where both A and B will share the energy. This will simply result in a stand still at the moment that A has transferred half of the energy to B because at that point they are doing exact the same thing in opposite direction resulting in an energetically perfect situation where nothing really changes. If we then bring in the concept of entropy A and B will expel eachother in order to get rid of the impasse. This however means that there is loss of energy within the system, breaking with our paradigm of perfect energy transmission. In the end you will always come back to find loss of energy because of it. Some outside force would have to keep A and B together but as soon as you would introduce this phenomenon ‘C’ it too has to use energy to do so. If we have a phenomenon D to introduce that energy, C and D have to be in the same situation as A and B. This could go on endlessly and all factors you add will have to be compensated in one way or another constantly expanding what we try to define as the system. So the fundamentals are probably entropy enabled by directing energy outward. I’m curious if this makes sense to you and if it is what you were asking for
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