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Article #16073Re: Quantum Gravity 240.5: Quantum Gravity "Demolished" At University of Oregon USA
From: OsherD
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:12
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:12
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On Apr 1, 2:54 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: madness of > crowds' (ibid. p. 8)...Clausius' verbal statement of the second law > makes no sense...All that remains is a Mosaic prohibition; a century > of philosophers and journalists have acclaimed this commandment; a > century of mathematicians have shuddered and averted their eyes from > the unclean...Seven times in the past thirty years have I tried to > follow the argument Clausius offers... and seven times has it blanked > and gravelled me... I cannot explain what I cannot understand....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." > > Pentcho Valev From Osher Doctorow: Well said, Pentcho Valev! Osher Doctorow > pva...@yahoo.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
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