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In the strict sense of the question: no. Physics is science based on empirical evidence. But this applies to all laws of physics. E.g. if by tommorowtomorrow you find and confirm experimental evidence which contradict current theories, you have to expand the theories (or invent new ones), and you gain insight in the domain of applicability of your old theory (which still stays valid in its domain). Of

Of course you might be able to derive/prove the second law from certain assumptions, but if you were to find an experiment where the second law doesntdoesn't hold, then you start to know the limitations of your assumptions.

In the strict sense of the question: no. Physics is science based on empirical evidence. But this applies to all laws of physics. E.g. if by tommorow you find and confirm experimental evidence which contradict current theories, you have to expand the theories (or invent new ones), and you gain insight in the domain of applicability of your old theory (which still stays valid in its domain). Of course you might be able to derive/prove the second law from certain assumptions, but if you were to find an experiment where the second law doesnt hold, then you start to know the limitations of your assumptions.

In the strict sense of the question: no. Physics is science based on empirical evidence. But this applies to all laws of physics. E.g. if by tomorrow you find and confirm experimental evidence which contradict current theories, you have to expand the theories (or invent new ones), and you gain insight in the domain of applicability of your old theory (which still stays valid in its domain).

Of course you might be able to derive/prove the second law from certain assumptions, but if you were to find an experiment where the second law doesn't hold, then you start to know the limitations of your assumptions.

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In the strict sense of the question: no. Physics is science based on empirical evidence. But this applies to all laws of physics. E.g. if by tommorow you find and confirm experimental evidence which contradict current theories, you have to expand the theories (or invent new ones), and you gain insight in the domain of applicability of your old theory (which still stays valid in its domain). Of course you might be able to derive/prove the second law from certain assumptions, but if you were to find an experiment where the second law doesnt hold, then you start to know the limitations of your assumptions.