[FRIAM] Entropy Redux

[Frank Wimberly]

All I know is PV = nRT.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Thu, May 29, 2025, 9:45 AM Roger Critchlow <rec at elf.org> wrote:

> 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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