Simple Test of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Jos Uffink, Bluff your way in the Second Law of Thermodynamics: "I therefore argue for the view that the second law has nothing to do with the arrow of time. [...] Before one can claim that acquaintance with the Second Law is as indispensable to a cultural education as Macbeth or Hamlet, it should obviously be clear what this law states. This question is surprisingly difficult. The Second Law made its appearance in physics around 1850, but a half century later it was already surrounded by so much confusion that the British Association for the Advancement of Science decided to appoint a special committee with the task of providing clarity about the meaning of this law.. However, its final report (Bryan 1891) did not settle the issue. Half a century later, the physicist/philosopher Bridgman still complained that there are almost as many formulations of the second law as there have been discussions of it. And even today, the Second Law remains so obscure that it continues to attract new efforts at clarification." http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/313/1/engtot.pdf

Jos Uffink is arguably the best expert on the foundations of thermodynamics, but even if he wasn't, we can take his statements as hypotheses and try to draw a conclusion. So our premises a

1. It is not clear what the second law of thermodynamics states, 167 years after its appearance.

2. The second law has nothing to do with the arrow of time.

The only reasonable conclusion is:

The second law of thermodynamics is a bluff, the result of the strange inclination of mankind to blind itself by imposing false restrictive principles (Einstein's constancy of the speed of light is another example).

Pentcho Valev