if you know your way around the Maxwell Demon arguments.... Demon Problem in a nutshell: Basically you must have a **discriminant function** to decide what's fast and slow (a gate etc.). The arguments come down to that your #1 function gets randomised because it is getting knocked about too (its small, on the scale, right?) or #2 that it is blinded by the isotropy of the radiation, or #3 that it must have a little computer running it and this inevitably rejects more heat into the environment than the d.f. is trying to reduce.
Here's the way out: All the old arguments are bogus if you use phase changes and think out of the square. This can be argued macroscopically (thermodynamics T-S diagrams, meso-scopically considering the chemical potential and nano-scopically by molecular dynamics simulations. That's what I'm up to and I feel a renewed vigour after all the years of boredom. It is an interesting subject. I need to type this up clearly in the thesis from all the early papers. It's based on logic and fact. I'm not jerking myself off denying reality. I don't see the point in jerking science because like God, it just stares back at one, unchanging, because it just IS regardless of ONE. If you want to play God with the laws of nature become a science fiction writer. One day that kind of person will have their own Holo-deck or Fantasy Island and they can make the rules, be rich, be loved but it will be an imaginary world. I am finding it fascinating and interesting again and that solely motivates me, not the pursuit of money and shiny offices. Love the problem and solving the problem for its sake and forget the trappings of office. After I've done my projects I'll run off with some of my girlfriends into nice exotic countries and happily live the life of a farmer, then disappear into the background, job done. I've got no ego trip merely a personal journey and to have fun for the mind. Go cross-correlate that with sociopath crank messiah inventor types and compare them to real scientists. -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 October 2008 18:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Tata, Butanol, Biofuels ----- Original Message ---- From: Remi Cornwall > Yes it a Maxwell Demon but it can be done if you know your way around the Maxwell Demon arguments. This is not to detract from you argument, which I like -- ... but would want to see more detail (like are you using the penduli in the same way as the 'tuning fork' analogy?) ... yet I find it most amusing that you can readily accept a Maxwell Demon - for which there is zero proof, and at the same time be so vocal in rejecting the Mills theory of 'redundant ground states' of hydrogen; for which there is ample proof from him, from cosmology; and even quasi-independent University replication, where a megajoule of excess is documented, and with little other way to explain it (non chemical at least). Jones
