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How the Scientific Community Reacts to Violations of the Second Lawof Thermodynamics



 
 
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Old March 13th 17, 05:59 PM posted to sci.astro
Pentcho Valev
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Default How the Scientific Community Reacts to Violations of the SecondLaw of Thermodynamics

Violations of the second law of thermodynamics would be regarded as commonplace if it were not for misleading education:

http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/py105/Heatengines.html
"A necessary component of a heat engine, then, is that two temperatures are involved. At one stage the system is heated, at another it is cooled."

So the scientific community learns that a heat engine ALWAYS has two heat reservoirs, hot and cold:

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfadd/1360/2...s/Fig22.01.jpg

Isothermal (only one heat reservoir) heat engines are either ignored or presented as impossible by thermodynamics educators and as a result the scientific community believes that they do not exist:

http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfadd/1360/2...s/Fig22.03.jpg

Actually heat engines functioning in isothermal conditions (only one heat reservoir) - e.g. the work-producing force is activated by some chemical agent, not by heating - are commonplace. They all violate the second law of thermodynamics. I have already given enough examples.

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