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Re: CAPACITORS VIOLATING THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS

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From: Edward Green
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:34
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On Jun 6, 2:52 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Today's scientists stop reading, thinking, even breathing, as soon as
> they bump into the idea that the second law of thermodynamics might be
> false or that Einstein's 1905 light postulate might be false:
>
> http://www.liferesearchuniversal.com/1984-17.html#seventeen
> George Orwell: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
> though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It
> includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive
> logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are
> inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of
> thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction.
> Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity."
>
> So a number of fundamental questions simply cannot be discussed in
> today's science. One of them is:
>
> Why does immersing a constant-charge parallel-plate capacitor in water
> drastically DECREASE (80 times) the force of attraction between the
> plates while inserting a SOLID dielectric between the plates INCREASES
> the force of attraction?
<...>

I don't know. But why would such a thing violate the second law of
thermodynamics?
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