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WE shall all agree with Dr. Boltzmann's views as expressed in NATURE of July 4, that if in a system of elastic sphere molecules the free paths be very long, and if at the same time the system be of unlimited extent, condition A will always be satisfied. The system will go on till it attains Nirvana in the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.
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BURBURY, S. The Kinetic Theory of Gases. Nature 52, 316–317 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052316d0
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