From: Jed Rothwell
This is wrong for two reasons:
1. It did not cool off. It got hotter, then cooler, than hotter again,
before finally cooling. This proves there was some source of energy in the
cell. That is fundamental to the laws of thermodynamics.
No! this does not prove anything of the kind - except for the superficially
of your understanding of thermodynamic principles.
You do not understand Preparata, or superradiance. You have forgotten the
lesson of "recalescence" which we have talked about here before. You do not
understand that phase-change alone can provide "heat after death".
The simple proof the incorrectness of your logic is found in a mundane
phenomenon the "singing bowl" and it can be seen in some tuning forks. The
bowl is struck and begins to vibrate. In normal bells or tuning forks, the
frequency tails off, and is always decreasing. However, with specialty
metals - the vibration is not a linear decrease, and the frequency can
actually increase, before finally decreasing.
This is increase in frequency is directly applicable to heating-gain after
power shut-off. The same thing happens in recalescence and other forms of
phase change.
Preparata and Dicke explained this as super-radiance. It does not violate
the laws of thermodynamics.
Jones
