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Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy?

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On 10/12/15 7:37 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
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> The spamming, ignorant shit head is jealous of an actual education.
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   Actually I always thought the jimp was jealous of those that provide
   content.   :-o

   How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of
   thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t
   you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing
   energy?
> http://www.askamathematician.com/2013/01/qhow-do-lenses-that-concentrate-light-not-violate-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics-if-you-use-a-magnifying-glass-to-burn-ants-arent-you-making-a-point-hotter-than-the-ambient-temperature-without/

 > Physicist: This is a surprisingly subtle question.
 >
 > It certainly impossible to create new energy, but there’s nothing to
 > stop you from piping energy from one place to another (say, by
 > running hot water from a boiler to somewhere else).  The case of
 > sunlight and a lens is just a matter of controlling where the energy
 > is going in a slightly more abstract way.  Focusing light from the
 > Sun doesn’t decrease entropy, because what a lens does (this is a
 > little hand-wavy) is to exchange “direction information” for
 > “position information”.  The light from one direction (from the
 > direction of the Sun) gets brought together in one position (the
 > focus).

   Keep reading.




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How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-08 19:53 -0500
  Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-10-08 17:58 -0700
    Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 08:07 +0200
      Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Angelo <patrizio.pan-2002@libero.it> - 2015-10-09 09:18 -0700
        Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 18:54 +0200
  Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-09 04:09 +0000
    Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 09:30 -0500
      Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-13 00:37 +0000
        Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 21:23 -0500
          Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren’t you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-10-13 02:56 +0000
  Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Angelo <patrizio.pan-2002@libero.it> - 2015-10-09 09:26 -0700
  Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 10:49 -0700
    Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 12:53 -0500
      Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Bret Cahill <bretcahill@aol.com> - 2015-10-09 12:54 -0700
        Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 12:57 -0700
          Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 15:12 -0500
            Re: How do lenses that concentrate light not violate the second law of thermodynamics? If you use a magnifying glass to burn ants, aren't you making a point hotter than the ambient temperature without losing energy? "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 13:19 -0700

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