Dear Pentcho
Thanks for your helpful reply. I do not wish to unsubscribe form the
Crisis Forum site because it is important, but I don't think you
should waste everybody's else's time with this esoteric bollocks that
seems to me of little relevance to most members of CF, and no
relevance at all to the task in hand. If we don't stay focused on
the real task, nothing will get done.
Perhaps you should unsubscribe.
Tom
At 10:34 13/12/2007, you wrote:
>No I can't. You should unsubscribe.
>
>Pentcho Valev
>
>--- Tom Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Pentcho Valev
> >
> > Can you please delete my address from this debate?
> > Thanks, t
> >
> >
> >
> > At 07:44 13/12/2007, you wrote:
> > >http://www.nyas.org/ebrief/miniEB.asp?eBriefID=687
> > >"In particular, the Second Law of Thermodynamics
> > >dictates that entropy in a physical system will
> > >increase as time passes. This has ramifications on
> > >cosmological scales in the inflationary model of
> > our
> > >universe, which posits that there was an initial
> > >singularity and that since the Big Bang, the
> > universe
> > >has been expanding."
> > >
> > >http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/
> > >Jos Uffink: "This summary leads to the question
> > >whether it is fruitful to see irreversibility or
> > >time-asymmetry as the essence of the second law. Is
> > it
> > >not more straightforward, in view of the unargued
> > >statements of Kelvin, the bold claims of Clausius
> > and
> > >the strained attempts of Planck, to give up this
> > idea?
> > >I believe that Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa was right in
> > her
> > >verdict that the discussion about the arrow of time
> > as
> > >expressed in the second law of the thermodynamics
> > is
> > >actually a RED HERRING."
> > >
> > >Whether the law of entropy increase is a RED
> > HERRING
> > >or not would be a problem in a different world. In
> > >Einstein zombie world the universal solution is:
> > Who
> > >cares. Some can make money and career by applying
> > this
> > >law. Bravo! Cleverer scientists can show it is a
> > RED
> > >HERRING. Bravo again! Cleverer scientists will also
> > be
> > >given some money.
> > >
> > >Pentcho Valev
> > >[log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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