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Science > Physics |
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"Pentcho Valev" |
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05 Feb 2006 12:57:43 AM |
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The Charms of Postscientism: Clausius Inequality |
Why is cyclic integral of dQ/T always negative or zero? Because, answer
thermodynamics zombies, if it were positive, the second law of
thermodynamics would be violated. Zombies just repeat the argument of
Clausius sketched on pp.33-34 in
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/00/engtot.pdf
In fact, generally, the sign of the cyclic integral has nothing to do
with any version of the second law. That is, cycles may have positive
integrals even if all versions of the second law were true.
In the era of Postscientism nobody cares about the truth or falsity of
Clausius inequality. It is just a charm - chemistry students should
learn some of its versions by rote. The reason is that thermodynamics
zombies are almost all professors of physical chemistry.
Pentcho Valev
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| User: "OsherD" |
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| Title: Re: The Charms of Postscientism: Clausius Inequality |
05 Feb 2006 01:08:04 AM |
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From Osher Doctorow
Pentcho Valev typed:
thermodynamics
zombies are almost all professors of physical >chemistry.
This is astonishingly accurate in my opinion! I'll go further and say
that arguably the power structures of most industrialized nations are
formed by chemists, engineers, management/business people, lawyers,
publishers, and extremely lucky but extremely Mediocre billionaires who
neither recognize the Individual nor the Plurality other than
themselves (but they promulgate "teamwork" as a pseudo-religion to get
people to work for them).
Osher Doctorow
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