On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at 1:45:12 PM UTC, Sam Wormley wrote:
Maxwell's demon as a self-contained, information-powered refrigerator
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-maxwell...rigerator.html


I am curious about a number of things associated with Maxwell, not so much the man himself but rather how the empiricists in the early 20th century wove him into the narrative separating relativity and Newton.

Of course you now know that the 'scientific method' came in under the radar of the 'theory of gravity' which in itself began as single statement that experimental sciences at a human level scale up to an astronomical level as a direct correlation and not simply as useful analogies -


"Rule III. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither [intensification] nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever." Newton

This horrible notion has been taught through schools for centuries and compounded further by relativity which borrowed the language of absolute/relative and buried humanity deeper in voodoo while understanding nothing of what Newton tried to do.

You hold people like Maxwell in esteem and indeed he was heralded by your own instructors as a key person in the development bridging Newton's agenda with that of the early 20th century even wile those same instructors knew nothing of Newton's approach to astronomy as a mathematicians and not as an astronomer.

Having laid bare the entire sequence of technical details which distinguish what Newton tried to do in contrast to what was actually done by the original heliocentric astronomers I find nobody around to discuss the matter, not even the core principles which set the empirical agenda going and especially that statement known as 'rule 3'.

It is quite an experience to encounter so drastic an ideology without the slightest sign that it is recognized as a destructive notion that it is and regardless how long it has been called an 'achievement'.