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Nikolai wrote:...rather than the immutability of species.
Nikolai

What immutability? Do we not have a fossil record of the development of Mankind?

People who reject evolution in the animal world are extremely rare and tend not to be the kind of people who are interested in debate, examples or evidence. Most religious people I know either follow the ID argument, or they believe that evolution applies to animals and plants but not to mankind. I...

Hi Blame, ...Mechanical work can vaguely be defined as orderly motion of atoms in one direction (like a piston inside a cylinder, or a weight being lifted...). I thought Joule had precisely defined what Mechanical Work was? A definite amount of Heat. I'm not sure what you mean by the "orderly m...

Oh! Fuck me! He's gone an changed the intro to a better sales pitch. Still I suppose thats what a forum is about(testing ones philosophical ideas and adapting them) but I'm a bit gutted that he can't be bothered to state the solution to mankinds philosophical and mystical problems without making a b...

Hi Barbara, Arising_uk, The saving grace of true opinion is bravery. Courage is a mighty agent, under all circumstances courage preserves, is the mightiest of all solvents in mind. I'll understand this as a compliment as I understand myself to be one who stands by his opinions as they are based upon...

Jack,
Well, if it exists and it did control everything then those who kill, rape, murder, maim and assault others, can sleep soundly in their beds knowing they are doing its will.

i blame blame wrote:...Yes, cavity or blackbody. The known universe is the closest thing to a "perfect black body" we know of. I may reply to the rest tomorrow.

How is the known universe a cavity? Whats heating it? Sorry if I miss the point.
a_uk

John W. Kelly wrote:

i blame blame wrote: Inside an oven...

This is the so-called "Black Box?"

Page 27/8 a Cavity.

hi Blame, ...If the two containers are perfectly insulated from the surroundings, then those two containers are your universe. The set of the two containers would not lose heat and no work would be done if the gate were removed. However, entropy would increase because the system has become more homo...

Hi blame, ...Close but no cigar. Entropy and energy are not measured in the same units. Entropy is measured in Joules per Kelvin. Entropy kind of measures the quantity of energy's ability to be "useful" or "missing" but it is not itself the "missing" energy. I like! clo...

Hi JWK, What I see is that the flow of energy has a limit in the direction it can go, like a diode. Nothing new here. Whoa! There Kemo Sabe. I do not have a great understanding of Electronics. A diode is what? I'm guessing that it sounds like an incarnation of C's second law? Could it be that once w...

Hi John, I'm still unclear about what exactly Entropy is? I think I understand the ideas on pages 16 & 17 about Thermal equlibrium and how Energy can be described(formalised?) as the exchange of Work and Heat and that there is a Law called The Conservation of Energy, i.e. Energy is a constant th...

Any tantalising clues yet?

Bet I have more.
p.s.
Yah wanna go page by page or some combination thereof?

...This is my challenge I aim to refute all not with opinion but truth, never stumbling at any step of the argument I define. Hi Barbara, This is a brilliant thing to strive for. But you cannot lose such a task as you define it. Are you a Logician? As, if not, I think you'd thrive in the academic f...