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Grothor comments on Entropy and Temperature - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: spxtr 17 December 2014 08:04AM

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Comment author: Grothor 20 December 2014 10:52:13PM 1 point [-]

The first way is that the water doesn't flow heat into the beer, rather it does some work on it.

This actually clears things up quite a lot. I think my discomfort with this description is mainly aesthetic. Thank you for being patient.