At 5:37 PM 01/20/2015, Malcom Dean wrote:
Entropy is a mathematical variable which balances equations, but cannot
possibly describe the conditions and actual processes which lead to work,
enable its completion, or detail its purpose.
May I add some qualifications? Entropy must be a ni
Dear Malcom Dean,
Unless you are claiming that the past 150 year of thermodynamics is bunk, I
think your denial needs qualification. Of course "entropy" is a
mathematical variable. And yes it balances equations. And yes it assesses
only one aspect of the changes that occur in a physical transforma
On 2015-01-19 20:37 GMT+01:00 Joshua Augustus Bacigalupi <
bacigalupiwo...@gmail.com> wrote to the FIS list:
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> > Josh Bacigalupi here, fellow pirate. Thank you all for this
thoughtful discussion.
> >
> > ... We can all agree that the creation of entropy is necessary to do
work; ...
With respec
