The apparent lack of anti-matter in the universe is also conundrum from the standpoint of CoE.
harry On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:54 PM, MarkI-ZeroPoint <zeropo...@charter.net> > wrote: > >> Hence, when someone adamantly relies on CoE, saying that such and such is >> impossible since it would violate CoE, they are not a scientist in my mind. > > > I don't know about the "not a scientist" part, but I personally have no > profound attachment to CoE. :) Assume that CoE is understood today as: > > Eout - Ein = 0 > > What if, instead, it were really: > > Eout - Ein = k > > for very small k, or, more interestingly, > > Eout - Ein = f(t) > > for f(t) ~ 0 at this time. > > Scientists see fit to posit parallel universes and dark energy and so on, so > I see no reason to conclude that the known universe is a closed system. > Perhaps, every time there is a reaction that involves electromagnetic > radiation, you get a little less out than goes in, and we just balance the > books with neutrinos and other gimics that would make Enron proud. > > My earlier comments were a futile attempt to understand how a LENR reaction > involving titanium could be endothermic. It's probably not all that > difficult, as it turns out, and my lack of understanding of thermodynamics > was getting in the way. > > Eric >
