Beads of Doubt: Second Law of Thermodynamics Untrue? -

BBC - UK ^ | December 18, 2003 | Dr David Whitehouse

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I bet this will be as reproducible as cold fusion.

[DarthFuzball]

Entropy sucks. But not like it used to.

[Cicero]

I'd like to see a few other people repeat the experiment.

[sonofatpatcher2]

They'll take away my Second Law of Thermodynamics

from my cold, dead fingers!

[greenwolf]

Let me know when somebody gets a bowling ball to roll up a hill...

[meowmeow]

So there. I'm not cleanig my house any more.

[FairOpinion]

"The researchers discovered that in such a tiny system, entropy can sometimes decrease rather than increase. "

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If they can prove this, the consequences can be remarkable.

[Mr. Mojo]

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[RS]

"Beads of Doubt: Second Law of Thermodynamics Untrue?"

I KNEW It ! I didn't flunk that test after all !

[RS]

"Beads of Doubt: Second Law of Thermodynamics Untrue?"

I KNEW It ! I didn't flunk that test after all !

[MHGinTN]

Someone needs to ping Prigogine with this one.

[JusPasenThru]

This is a point I've been trying to make for a long time.

[Steely Tom]

Human beings decrease the entropy of the universe.

(steely)

[the invisib1e hand]

i always thought the contradiction bewteen evolution and entropy was a hoot...no matter how much sophistry academia spews to whitewash it, one argues against the other.

[John H K]

Eh, to be really technical, I don't know if I totally agree with the headline to the article.

Einstein didn't show Newton's laws to be "untrue" really...99.999% of the time Newton's laws are fine, and we went to the moon with them, etc. Newton wasn't "wrong."

This would really be a small-scale quantum violation of the 2nd Law, I guess. Broadly, the 2nd Law remains true.

[FairOpinion]

IF it can be proven conclusively, it's as significant, if not more, than the discovery of theory of relativity.

If the 2nd law of termodynamics isn't true, than all of a sudden a lot of things, which we thought impossible, because they violated the 2nd law of termodynamics, now can become possible.

[John H K]

i always thought the contradiction bewteen evolution and entropy was a hoot...no matter how much sophistry academia spews to whitewash it, one argues against the other.

The "hoot" is how moronic creationidiots who understand neither the 2nd law or evolution continually trot out the tired old canard that evolution violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It does not.

Helpful hint: The earth IS NOT A CLOSED SYSTEM.

[MHGinTN]

Couldn't you apply that to all life, as life tends to strive for ordering its environment that contacts it, for a time suspending the 2nd law perhaps.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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