SYMPTOMS OF DEAD SCIENCE

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From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:36

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http://www.nyas.org/ebrief/miniEB.asp?eBriefID=687
"In particular, the Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that entropy
in a physical system will increase as time passes. This has
ramifications on cosmological scales in the inflationary model of our
universe, which posits that there was an initial singularity and that
since the Big Bang, the universe has been expanding."

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."

Whether the law of entropy increase is a RED HERRING  or not would be
a problem in a different world. In Einstein zombie world the universal
solution is: Who cares. Some can make money and career by applying
this law. Bravo! Cleverer scientists can show it is a RED HERRING.
Bravo again! Cleverer scientists will also be given some money.

Pentcho Valev
pvalev@yahoo.com

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