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Re: A FEATURE OF POSTSCIENTISM

#6420
From: Uncle Al
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:22
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Pentcho Valev wrote:
> 
> A few years ago a serious analysis of the foundations of
> thermodynamics produced the conclusion that the law of entropy
> increase is actually a RED HERRING:

  1) Color the herring blue - make a perpetual motion machine.
  2) Thermodynamics + Beckenstein limit = General Relativity
  3) idiot

> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
> Jos Uffink: Bluff your Way in the Second Law of Thermodynamics
[snip rest of crap]

"The aim of this article is to analyse the relation between the second
law of thermodynamics and the so-called arrow of time."

Fucking imbecile Pentcho Valev - the absolute arrow of time is not
entropy (merely statistical), it is angular momentum (Feynman's
sprinkler).

idiot

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