From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 16:41:00 MST
On 25 Jan 2002 at 16:45, David Hill wrote:
> Couldn't the God add energy from outside AND remove similar energy. Just
> moving things around from an orthagonal direction as it were. If this was
> done, we the observers looking for second law violations couldn't tell if
> the 2nd law had been violated (say on a microscopic scale) and therefore it
> wouldn't have been. If God causes a 2nd law violation and nobody notices,
> did it really happen? I know, I know it's old but it's a goodie.
>
Universe means never getting to say 'outside'.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-virus@lucifer.com [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> Of ben
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:32 PM
> To: virus@lucifer.com
> Subject: Re: virus: Kirk: Standing my ground
>
> <SNIP and I don't know what proper SNIPPING conventions are. I did like
> Hermit's idea of mechanizing it, but can he get the project funded?>
>
> [Bill 0] Divine intervention would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics
>
> [ben 0] I don't follow that this is true.
>
> [Bill 1] It would voilate the 2nd because it means that energy from outside
> the
> universe would be input into this universe. Which means that there would be
> a
> surplus and a march away from entropy.
>
>
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