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Article #15665Re: News: Physicists investigate how time moves forward
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:55
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:55
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On Sep 6, 6:37 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote in sci.physics: > Robert Karl Stonjek wrote: > > [snip] > > > "The only fundamental theory that picks out a preferred direction of time is > > the second law of thermodynamics, which asserts that the entropy of the > > Universe increases as time flows toward the future. > > [snip] > > BULLSHIT.  The only strong arrow of time is angular momentum - > Feynman's sprinkler.  Entropy is no better than statistical.  Angular > momentum is absolute.  There is no way around it at any scale. But, Uncle Al or whatever you are, do you really contradict the greatest sycophant in science Sir Arthur Eddington: http://web.mit.edu/keenansymposium/overview/background/index.html ARTHUR EDDINGTON: "The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the SUPREME POSITION among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations—then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation— well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." If you do, Uncle Al or whatever you are, then answer the following question: Was the greatest sycophant in science Sir Arthur Eddington somewhat dishonest in 1919? Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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X-Google-Thread: 10b271,ccd09494e7e40e59 X-Google-Thread: 10f545,ccd09494e7e40e59 X-Google-Thread: fa4c1,ad2b28656a4d4655,start X-Google-Thread: 111645,ad2b28656a4d4655,start X-Google-Thread: f74ae,ad2b28656a4d4655,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,gid10f545,gidfa4c1,gid111645,gidf74ae,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Pentcho Valev <pvalev@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,fr.sci.physique,fr.sci.astrophysique,sci.astro Subject: Re: News: Physicists investigate how time moves forward Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 09:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 37 Message-ID: <402e38e1-1a26-4433-b73a-4cc30bc2812f@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> References: <bKowk.34383$IK1.1950@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <48C2B1E4.33CD3870@hate.spam.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.2.86.30 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220720150 28173 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2008 16:55:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 16:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=89.2.86.30; posting-account=Lz-LbgoAAABPDavKeW-eYeobwLHD_cvQ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe)