Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!85.12.16.70.MISMATCH!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad!fx26.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: Text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Jeff-Relf.Me @. Message-ID: References: Newsgroups: sci.physics,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.checkmate Subject: There's no "down" in a uniform heat bath universe. User-Agent: Jeff-Relf.Me/X.HTM Lines: 12 X-Complaints-To: abuse@blocknews.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 22:38:31 UTC Organization: blocknews - www.blocknews.net Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 14:38:39 -0800 (Seattle) X-Received-Bytes: 1390 X-Received-Body-CRC: 589465355 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:722150 comp.os.linux.advocacy:482745 alt.checkmate:244990 Michael replied: > [ a uniform heat bath universe might ] > have potential energy that can _never_ be used as exergy. There's no "down" in a uniform heat bath universe; so you can't fall down; kinetic energy isn't possible. > But my point simply is there is no connection between > the statistics that drive toward a heat death > and the gravitational constant G. It is a constant. So ?! Big G is irrelevant in a uniform heat bath universe.