In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:32:54 -0400: Hi, [snip] >Don't forget that there are two ways to violate of CoE. Either by the >creation of energy or by the destruction energy. >Harry > That opens an interesting possibility. Suppose that heat could be converted into neutrino/anti-neutrino pairs, which then escaped. No thermal balance, hence the substance would "spontaneously" cool down. One can broaden the concept to include various types of conversion other than into neutrinos.
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