noun: the practice of spending too much time and money on physical pleasures that are not good for your health
noun: the process by which a substance, a feeling, or energy gradually disappears by becoming less strong
noun: the act of wasting something such as time, money, or supplies by not using it in a sensible way
noun: breaking up and scattering by dispersion ("The dissipation of the mist")
noun: dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
noun: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
Keely
"Recently some questions, propounded to Mr. Keely by a scientist, elicited answers which the man of science admitted were clear and definite, but no physicist could accept Keely's assertion that incalculable amounts of latent force exist in the molecular space, for the simple reason that science asserts that molecular aggregation is attended with dissipation of energy instead of its absorption. The questions asked were:-
I. "In disintegrating water, how many foot-pounds of energy have you to expend in order or produce or induce the vibratory energy in your acoustical apparatus?"
Answer.- "No foot-pounds at all. The force necessary to excite disintegration when the instrument is sensitized, both in sensitization and development, would not be sufficient to wind up a watch."
II. "What is the amount of energy that you get out of that initial amount of water, say twelve drops, when decomposed into ether?"
Answer.- "From twelve drops of water a force can be developed that will fill a chamber of seven pint volume no less than six times with a pressure of ten tons to the square inch."
III. "In other words, if you put so many pounds of energy into vibratory motion, how many foot-pounds do you get out of this?"
Answer.- "All molecular masses of metal represent in their interstitial molecular spaces incalculable amounts of latent force, which if awakened and brought into intense vibratory action by the medium of sympathetic liberation, would result in thousands of billions more power in foot-pounds than that necessary to awaken it. The resultant development of any and all forces is only accomplished by conditions that awaken the latent energy they have carried with them during molecular aggregation. If the latent force that exists in a pound of water could be sympathetically evolved or liberated up to the seventh subdivision or compound interetheric, and could be stored free of rotation, it would be in my estimation sufficient to run the power of the world for a century." [Vibratory Physics - True Science]
Russell
"Negative electricity is force radiated in the direction of pressure assistance. Negative intensity decreases with expansion due to pressure assistance in streams flowing in same direction. Negative electricity is the dissipating, separating exothermic force of expansion which seeks lower pressures." [Russell, from chart: The Cosmic Pendulum]
See Also
Dispersion
Dissociation
Entropy
Tesla - ON THE DISSIPATION OF THE ELECTRICAL ENERGY OF THE HERTZ RESONATOR