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Originally Posted by Dendro Dave
Yep, it seems though even with Gibbs if we work it out far enough there is a point of failure where you are still left asking "well where did the potential energy come from, or why/how did it shift...In the end if you want an answer you have to invoke something akin/functionally equivalent to magic though even then I'm not sure you cover the fundamental "why"...There the answer seems to be basically to do something, to use the "magic" for some purpose...yet there we can only speculate as to that purpose, Unless magic (or whatever word you choose) itself is the purpose and also contains the meaning.
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Hi Dave,
Well Gibbs does do a good job of taking us out to the Big Bang.. as there are a lot of inherent changes in energy from the various types of reactions (chemical, kinetic, nuclear, van der waals, etc).
It all depends on the point at which you want to start.
Ed
