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How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists [Entropy]
https://www.quantamagazine.org ^ | APRIL 22, 2021 | Jonathan O'Callaghan

Posted on 04/29/2021 10:38:11 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi

The trinity is everywhere! The other really exciting thing is that the equation that Burkhard Heim derived to find the initial three spheres was a seventh order equation! So there is the origin of the seven day week.


41 posted on 04/29/2021 5:44:56 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: Boogieman

re: “Both examples aren’t really valid because they don’t occur in a closed system.”

‘Gaming’ the system; imposing constraint or boundary conditions. ANd outside the imposed constraints things are different ... sounds like artifical limits/constraints have been imposed.

I once asked myself: “Does nature have ‘gain’?”

I think the answer is yes.


42 posted on 04/29/2021 7:27:47 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Boogieman

re: “For example, the galaxy may look pretty organized, like a storm system, but if you zoom out to look at the whole visible universe, you won’t see a similar symmetrical, organized structure.”

A failure here to accept that “It is what it is.” at that scale?


43 posted on 04/29/2021 7:30:48 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Stosh

What about Maxwell’s Silver Hammer?


44 posted on 04/29/2021 7:32:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Thanks Red Badger. [singing] bang, bang, Maxwell's silver Demon came down, upon their heads...


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45 posted on 04/29/2021 9:43:09 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: NetAddicted

Are they like Schrodinger’s Cat?...................


46 posted on 04/30/2021 5:57:27 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: zeugma

Sure, we’ve detected large scale structures at the cosmic level, but nothing symmetrical or very “organized”, as far as I can tell. If the galaxies aren’t evenly distributed (entropy reaching the end state), then obviously some will be clumped together and show some kind of structure. So the presence of some kind of structure alone doesn’t really weigh in favor or self-organization being responsible. You would have to demonstrate that the specific structure is produced by some underlying mechanism rather than just random forces.


47 posted on 05/04/2021 7:54:21 AM PDT by Boogieman
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