Pierre Noizat

In this talk, Pierre will present the key take aways from his latest book.
1) Energy is everywhere in many different forms: heat, matter, waves. Anything that has a mass, like a particle or an object, is a condensed form of energy while waves and heat are more diffuse forms of energy.
2) Energy self-organize in open systems called dissipative structures such as particles, atoms, molecules, ore, living beings, planets and the universe itself. Typically, a dissipative structure is embedded in a larger one, e.g an animal is a dissipative structure made of cells and part of a species, cells and species are also dissipative structures.
3) Dissipative structures, in turn, self-organize to maximize the flow of energy going through them. This is called the 3rd principle of thermodynamics aka the principle of maximum entropy production.
4) The 3 principles of thermodynamics (the science of energy) explain how nature works, including individual and social behavior in the human species and how a monetary system reduces the entropy of its users.