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To: vannrox
And that would violate one of the golden rules of physics, the second law of thermodynamics.

Well hey, maybe we need a new second law.

16 posted on 09/23/2002 10:51:32 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
Well hey, maybe we need a new second law.

Actually, I don't see how this necessarily follows from this finding. There are a lot of other questionable and unstated assumptions that have to be made to get from here to there. Also, this seems to use a naive (quasi-Newtonian) interpretation of the second law, rather than the full expression of it (which is rarely brought up because it is ugly, makes the math complicated, and usually isn't necessary). *shrug*.

One of my favorite parts of science is that stuff always changes, although there IS slow convergence with time.

47 posted on 09/23/2002 9:05:26 PM PDT by tortoise
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