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11 Oct 2024 03:15:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Feeling the pinch yet?  
From: Stephen
Date: 21 Mar 2008 10:58:29
Message: <qlm7u3lr5ovt1v54g35cfjkirjikv4soks@4ax.com>
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:42:53 +0200, "Gail Shaw"
<initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:

>
>Think of it this way. If you have 2 pans of water, same volume, one's just
>above freezing point (0C) and one at boiling point (100C). Can you use the
>pan of boiling water to bring the second pan up to boiling point?
>

Maxwell's demon could :)

>Similar thing, just with heat, instead of springs

Doesn't that mean the universe will suffer when Entropy increases?
Thus proving the end of society as St first pointed out. 
You've just proved his point. And if he was right about that then
maybe the Perpetual Motion Machine is possible after all!
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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