Let us use the text for this short discussion: “Energy, like water, always must run down hill.” By keeping this text in mind one avoids many pit-falls of theory.
The major principle is equally useful: “Every action is accompanied by an equal and opposite reaction.” As an example of the application of this, one sees that pressure cannot be a direct cause of the origin of oil from organic matter, because in the process of formation, there is a great expansion in volume of the original matter.
Chemical reactions follow those rules as perfectly as the...
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