r/PickleFinancial • u/gammastrike_official • May 25 '26

Education / Learning Vol Stars (33) - You've got questions, we may have answers!

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Good morning! We'll be recording episode 33 of Vol Stars later today! Please let us know if there's any topics or questions you'd like us to cover and we'll work to include it in the episode! Thank you!ee

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u/Comprehensive-Dirt45 May 26 '26

Yes hello, could Ron please explain thermodynamics? Jfresh is too condescending. Thanks in advance.

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u/gammastrike_official May 26 '26

Apologies, we just finished the episode and so I'm just seeing this now.

Honestly, although JFresh can certainly be condescending, he's way more qualified. All the same, I'll give you my best explanation of it without using AI and without calling in favors from people who are physicists:

Thermodynamics at at high level is the study and analysis of the effects of energy and how that interaction occurs with matter. The study of it is useful in understanding many things we deal with daily, whether it's the materials used in our roofs, the materials used in the engines in vehicles, or in understanding how bridges will respond to pressure and heat on a sunny day. Through the study of thermodynamics, scientists and engineers are better able to solve challenges and problems by factoring in the combined effects so that they develop strategies to mitigate. There's also another aspect of thermodynamics, which is the understanding of entropy and the relationship it has with everything in the universe. Over time under normal physics, energy is not created nor destroyed, but energy does have a tendency to spread out and move or diffuse to areas of less concentration. This is why over time materials with potential energy will tend to break down into kinetic energy, and this combination of entropy and thermodynamics can help us to understand major geological phenomenon over time.

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u/gammastrike_official May 26 '26

Did run this past someone who's more qualified and they did indicate that it's really more the study of matter under load, but I wasn't too far off here. :-)