The Laws of Thermodynamics (Las leyes de la termodinámica)

Nature,

the universe,

our own existence,

are ruled by laws that are well known.

Laws that nothing

and nobody can escape.

Nevertheless, the scientific community had overlooked something until now:

the strange and deep relationship between those laws

and our own emotional behavior.

You are about to find out how the laws of physics

can be applied to the emotions that rule our daily routine.

And including, especially,

those of a much lesser-known discipline:

Thermodynamics!

Okay, what are thermodynamics?

Can any of you tell me?

Don't everyone raise your hand at once,

you'll confuse me.

As the name indicates, thermodynamics

is the study of the movement of heat.

Specifically, the ways in which energy is transformed.

Because as you already know, energy can take many forms.

This is Manel Suarez,

he'll be my assistant during the course.

Please go easy on him.

Manel spent his weekend building

this little steamboat for you,

which works thanks to the laws of thermodynamics.

Please, everyone come closer.

Quickly.

Take these seats.

Manel, explain how it works before the demonstration.

Okay, um...

This little bowl contains the fuel that will feed the flame,

the flame will heat the water in this tank...

Once heated, the water will expand

and come out of these two small tubes, propelling the boat.

That's so, Manel.

Beautiful.

Let's try it out.

Here, take mine.

Looks like it won't light...

That's all right.

What you're seeing

also responds to the principles of thermodynamics.

The principles we're talking about not only rule our lives

completely, they will also finally determine

our fate and that of the entire universe.

Prepare yourselves, on the shoulders of giants,

for a new leap in the history of science.

Welcome to the passionate and terrifying world of...

THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS A DOCUMENTARY BY MANEL SUAREZ

In order to discuss thermodynamics,

we need to refer to a system.

In this case, let's take the "humanity" system,

with its thousands of individual particles

moving and interacting with each other.

And we'll focus on a few of those particles.

For example, the Manel-particle...

and the Elena-particle,

who still haven't met.

The first thing we must know

is that all thermodynamic systems tend towards equilibrium.

But don't be fooled by how nice this word sounds.

It's precisely the lack

of equilibrium that could give the Manel and Elena particles

the chance to meet and interact,

to build something together.

Equilibrium in this case means the dispersion of the particles

and the absence of activity, of heat exchange.

Unfortunately, that's what we tend to move towards.

You're sleeping over at my place tomorrow. I have to get up early.

Me too.

How was your first day of class?

Did the boat work?

Wonderfully, like an outboard.

My super physicist aeronautical naval industrial nuclear engineer.

I bet all the girls were making eyes at you.

One of them did.

I love how you lie to me to make me horny.

Have you done everything yet?

Wash the dishes, sweep the floor, air out the flat,

lock the front door twice?

Then the Raquel-Manuel physical system is ready to fuck.

You still need to get your things ready for tomorrow.

And super romantic.

You've got it all.

But let's go straight to heat exchange

and the laws of thermodynamics.

What?

It simply what?

It's transformed, it's turned into something else.

ONE MONTH LATER

Into what?

- I don't know, into affection. - Affection?

That's what I feel for my dog.

Not that kind, it's more special.

But last night we fucked and you said you loved me.

I was your proton and you were my electron.

- You called me pickles. - Well, I mainly called you Raquel.

What are you talking about? What happened?

Love doesn't just transform overnight!

Well, it wasn't overnight.

Oh, it wasn't overnight.

No, it wasn't.

ONE YEAR LATER

We decided to take a break 3 months ago.

Two months, 18 days and 6 hours since you asked for time.

Exactly, it wasn't overnight. - You're not telling me the truth. - What?

I'm saying I don't love you anymore.

No, you're not telling me the whole truth.

What else do you want me to say? - Why did your love transform? - I already told you.

Love doesn't just transform overnight!

- You're going into a loop. - No, I'm not.

- Say it. - Say what?

What your love has really turned into.

- You really want to know? - You owe me that.

Into indifference.

You think I'm stupid?

Indifference is what's left when love has turned into something else.

I don't understand you.

You understand me perfectly. Say it.

Please, say it.

Please.

Say it!

There's someone else.

There's someone else.

ONE MONTH LATER - ONE YEAR LATER

Which brings us to the second law of thermodynamics.

- Wait a second! - Wait a second!

But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

To fully understand what's happening,

we have to go back in time

to the moment where it all began.

Inertia. That's what's acting on the Manel-body at this moment.

And in general, up until this moment.

- Do you love me? - Madly.

But let's continue with the laws of motion.

The girl you see now, or Eva-body, will help us explain the second law.

In this case, the force propelling Eva is named Rosa, who is also her mother.

She's been waiting for her for 15 minutes to have lunch.

And here we can see the effects of the third law.

Action,

reaction.

But Newton's huge contribution doesn't end here,

nor the event that triggered our story.

Allow me to introduce the Pablo-body

and one of the key laws of physics and of this story:

The law of gravity

or attraction of bodies.

This law is so important that we should stop here for a second.

A body's gravity depends on its mass,

which we mustn't identify by its weight,

rather by the amount of attractive material.

That's why the Pablo-body and the fatso-body are the ones attracted,

the ones that fall towards the super-massive Elena-body,

and not the other way around.

Gravity.

It alone can set us in motion,

change the direction of our path,

or disintegrate us.

God, what happened?

I'm sorry, are you hurt?

- What a blow. You okay? - Yeah.

Jesus Christ, I cracked your head open. Why are you on the ground?

It had to be you.

You two know each other?

Did you do this on purpose?

I wouldn't be surprised if you planned it.

You're the one with the twisted mind here.

And no, it wasn't on purpose. I wasn't that bent on meeting you.

And yes, I'm okay. Are you?

Seeing stars, but okay, yeah.

I'm so sorry, I don't know what I was thinking.

We're okay, thank you!

Thank you.

Thanks.

We were meeting for a drink on the terrace.

Would you two like to join us while we recover?

Sure, no problem.

Okay, until my friend gets here.

That's Manel, I'm Pablo.

I'm Eva. Nice crashing into you.

Likewise.

I'm Manel.

No, thank you.

Elena, right?

You look great in all the photos. Spectacular.

But the campaign's a bit dull.

You know we publicists criticize everything.

Really? I never noticed.

What do you two do?

I'm a criminal lawyer. I recently opened

- my own office. - How brave.

You have no idea.

And you?

I'm an astrophysicist.

I'm writing a thesis about thermodynamics in complex systems.

Yeah?

- How interesting. - He's a genius at what he does.