PARTIAL IMPACT
Sir,-The article on page 16 of your issue of March 12 describes the theory of Partial Impact as giving a view of a universe perpetually rejuvenated, Unless "perpetually" is read as "temporarily," this statement would seem to deny the ultimate applicability of the third law of thermodynamics. Is such: @ denial part of the theory?
E.
C.
(Wellington).
(Perhaps it depends on the point of view. If the universe is held to be running downy. the word "temporarily" is correct. If it is not running down, but. its energy is being continually renewed by the conversion of kinetic into heat energy, then "perpetually" may be held to be correct. Opinions about the state of the universe vary. Some consider it is expanding; others that it is con others that it is just a mystery; in fact, as ore has irreverently said, no end of a cell,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 461, 23 April 1948, Page 5
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147PARTIAL IMPACT New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 461, 23 April 1948, Page 5
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