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A new interpretation of thermodynamics is advanced; thermodynamics is the study of those properties of macroscopic matter that follow from the symmetry properties of physical laws, mediated through the statistics of large systems.
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The support of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. This work has also been supported in part by the National Science Foundation.
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Callen, H. Thermodynamics as a science of symmetry. Found Phys 4, 423–443 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708519
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