[FRIAM] Entropy Redux

[Roger Critchlow]

Well, I can throw Nick (and George) a life ring.  Meteorology is very
concerned with how changes in temperature happen, whether an increase is
induced through adding heat or by adding pressure is very important.  But
it's not thermodynamics.  What does a thermodynamic system want, George?
It wants to be isolated and at equilibrium.  What happens when it can't get
what it wants?  Things that thermodynamics isn't about.

I mean, haven't we gone over this multiple times before?  Verbally
logicking your way through natural science is a way to enumerate how
natural science does not correspond to verbal logic.  I remember the video
in which Harvard students were ambushed at commencement with questions
about how the moon phases or the seasons of the year were astronomically
based.  Brilliant wrong answers, many more wrong answers than correct, but
all brilliant and mostly delivered with great confidence even though they
were obviously wild guesses.

Ask George what Le Monde thinks causes the weather?

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