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On Dec 9, 08:49, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 15:36, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote in
> sci.physics.relativity:
>
> > The second law of thermodynamics (original version):
>
> >http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/Clausius.html
> > "Ueber die bewegende Kraft der Warme" 1850 Clausius:
> > "It is this maximum of work which must be compared with the heat
> > transferred. When this is done it appears that there is in fact ground
> > for asserting, with Carnot, that it depends only on the quantity of
> > the heat transferred and on the temperatures t and tau of the two
> > bodies A and B, but not on the nature of the substance by means of
> > which the work is done."
>
> > Einstein's second postulate:
>
> >http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/
> > "ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF MOVING BODIES" 1905 Einstein:
> > "...light is always propagated in empty space with a definite velocity
> > c which is independent of the state of motion of the emitting body."
>
> Accordingly, the two greatest discoveries of the 20th century are as
> follows (since science is dead, nobody has paid them any attention):
>
> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
> Jos Uffink: "This summary leads to the question whether it is fruitful
> to see irreversibility or time-asymmetry as the essence of the second
> law. Is it not more straightforward, in view of the unargued
> statements of Kelvin, the bold claims of Clausius and the strained
> attempts of Planck, to give up this idea? I believe that Ehrenfest-
> Afanassjewa was right in her verdict that the discussion about the
> arrow of time as expressed in the second law of the thermodynamics is
> actually a RED HERRING."
>
> http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
> Bryan Wallace: "Einstein's special relativity theory with his second
> postulate that the speed of light in space is constant is the linchpin
> that holds the whole range of modern physics theories together.
> Shatter this postulate, and modern physics becomes an elaborate
> farce!....The speed of light is c+v."

It seems I was mistaken. Clausius' 1850 invalid deduction and
Einstein's 1905 false light postulate have nothing to do with the
death of science.  The only science killer is the UK Government - that
is what the Royal Society has just discovered:

http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=7320
"A critical shortage of science and mathematics teachers is being made
worse since Government is in the dark about the full scale of the
problem.  That is the conclusion of a report published today by the
Royal Society.The state of the nation' report is a comprehensive
review of the available data on the UK's science and mathematics
teaching workforce across the 5-19 age range.  The report highlights
shortcomings in recruitment and retention, and concludes that there
are insufficient numbers of specialist physics, chemistry, biology and
mathematics teachers in schools.  The report shows that the
Government's ability to tackle the problem is seriously undermined by
its own lack of information."

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com