The Conceptual Foundation for Energy Physics and Thermodynamics’ Dual Foundations

Energy physics, or thermodynamics, is a theoretical system based on a conceptual foundation of free energy defined by its two fundamental laws in what is referred to as the “combined first and second laws of thermodynamics.” The thesis of the essay is that energy physics theoretical system, which led to the false truism of energy as nature’s driving force while entropy growth as drag to the driving force, can be better understood by focusing on its two fundamental laws as well as its dual, conceptual and methodological, foundations. On a new conceptual foundation of entropy growth, we arrive at an understanding of entropy growth as the universal driving force of macroscopic processes while energy conservation as closure condition to all processes.