>>14374558its infuriating because it is badly incorrect and you are forced to learn it as if it were god's truth.
cognitive dissonance is the most infuriating thing known to exist and thermodynamics is constructed out of it. the fundamental basis of the boltzmann gang's approach is a universe in which the baseline zero energy state is at 0ºK and we do not live in that universe, that much has been know for more than half a century.
so you're sitting there in class like a total cuck busting your ass to learn """university physics"""" which everyone knows is all wrong, but you gotta do it anyway because
>muh degree >muh jerbz >muh career when what you'd really rather be doing is reconstructing boltzmann et al's efforts in the context of what is now known about physical reality and producing a superior, more accurate set of equations.
undergrad thermo is like forcing people to memorize and repeat the "fact" that the sky is green until they believe its true.
