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On Oct 30, 12:44 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Postscientists destroying the One True Science's enemies:
>
> http://bip.cnrs-mrs.fr/bip10/valevfaq.htm
> Athel Cornish-Bowden: "Reading Mr Valev’s postings to the BTK-MCA and
> other news groups and trying to answer all the nonsense contained in
> them incurs the risk of being so time-consuming that it takes over
> one’s professional time completely, leaving none for more profitable
> activities. On the other hand, not answering them incurs the even
> greater risk that some readers of the news group may think that his
> points are unanswerable and that thermodynamics, kinetics, catalysis
> etc. rest on as fragile a foundation as he pretends. (...) Puzzlement
> on this subject extends even to Bulgaria, as B. V. Toshev, head of the
> Departments of Physical Chemistry and of Chemistry Education at the
> University of Sofia, noted in a message to the Chemistry Education
> Discussion List in April 2005, when he asked: "Who is Pentcho Valev?
> What is his education? Nobody in Bulgaria knows that. He does not
> belong either to the researchers or to the Bulgarian education
> community. I even wonder if he is a real man?!" (...) There is
> probably no law in science that has been tested so thoroughly, by so
> many people, over such a long period. (Why? Because lots of people
> would like it to be wrong, and if they could find a loophole it might
> well make them very rich; as Benno ter Kuile pointed out, an instant
> Nobel prize would be only a minor part of the rewards). None of them
> has been able to disprove it, so the only reasonable interpretation
> for the reasonable person is that it is true. Mr Valev thinks
> otherwise, and there was a great deal of discussion of this during May
> to September 1997, during which period Mr Valev’s scheme for tangling
> the threads was so successful that you will have great difficulty
> trying to follow any of the arguments. Suffice it to say that if Mr
> Valev really believed what he was saying he would not be writing
> nonsense on this news group, he would be building the machine that
> would make him the richest man in Bulgaria (or even the world)."
>
> http://web.mst.edu/~gbert/hoaxes.html
> Gary Bertrand: "The Troll disappeared from the Chem Ed Discussion List
> around 2007, then apparently re-located to the West Coast and
> reappeared in 2008 with a new persona.  This one repeatedly posted the
> tired old quotes about Relativity, and responded repeatedly to his own
> postings.  Only recently, has he ventured back into the area of
> Thermodynamics, where he clearly doesn't understand the postings of
> his predecessors. (...) In continuing his silliness from a discussion
> above, the Troll refutes the validity of Partial Differential
> Equations, while blaming it on the Second Law of Thermodynamics.  One
> can prove a lot of things with partial differential equations if the
> independent variables are not specified."
>
> The same postscientists freeing the world from the stranglehold of the
> One True Science:
>
> http://www.beilstein-institut.de/bozen2004/proceedings/CornishBowden/...
> ATHEL CORNISH-BOWDEN: "The concept of entropy was introduced to
> thermodynamics by Clausius, who deliberately chose an obscure term for
> it, wanting a word based on Greek roots that would sound similar to
> "energy". In this way he hoped to have a word that would mean the same
> to everyone regardless of their language, and, as Cooper [2] remarked,
> he succeeded in this way in finding a word that meant the same to
> everyone: NOTHING. From the beginning it proved a very difficult
> concept for other thermodynamicists, even including such accomplished
> mathematicians as Kelvin and Maxwell; Kelvin, indeed, despite his own
> major contributions to the subject, never appreciated the idea of
> entropy [3]. The difficulties that Clausius created have continued to
> the present day, with the result that a fundamental idea that is
> absolutely necessary for understanding the theory of chemical
> equilibria continues to give trouble, not only to students but also to
> scientists who need the concept for their work."
>
> http://mailer.uwf.edu/listserv/wa.exe?A2=ind0910&L=chemed-l&T=0&O=D&P...
> Gary Bertrand: "Whether or not the Second Law is useless depends on
> how you are stating the Second Law.  I said what I consider to be the
> Second Law.  And yes, I find the statement that the entropy of the
> Universe must always increase to be useless."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

I has cracked the code!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp--8MIrlhQ&feature=PlayList&p=A49009D2F53890B0&index=5

"Chosen by American Baby readers[sic] as a product they can’t live
with out for six consecutive years."

Finally some proof hear.

:-)