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Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again?

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On 9/15/2015 10:13 AM, john wrote:
> "Heat death of the Universe"
> What a crock!!
> Of course-since it's incredibly far into
> the future- these K00Ks can say
> anything they want
>

John, there is this thing called the second law of thermodynamics, which 
says that the entropy of a closed system (and the universe counts) will 
increase.

As entropy increases, the energy available to do work decreases.

This law about entropy was discovered back in the 1800s when a lot of 
physicists were working on thermodynamics. And then Ludwig Boltzmann 
showed that this is a natural consequence of classical mechanics.

Now you, as an expression of your faith in an eternal and cycling 
universe, are saying that the second law of thermodynamics (and in fact 
the ordinary mechanics that gives rise to it) can't possibly be right, 
because it is in conflict with something you've taken in faith.

-- 
Odd Bodkin --- maker of fine toys, tools, tables

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After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 08:28 -0500
  After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 08:13 -0700
    Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 11:15 -0500
      Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-15 12:40 -0500
      Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 19:03 -0400
      Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 21:50 -0700
        Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 22:02 -0700
          Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 22:19 -0700
            Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 07:44 -0500
          Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 07:41 -0500
        Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 07:40 -0500
  Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-15 10:39 -0500
  Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-09-15 16:10 -0700
    Re: After the heat death of the universe will anything ever happen again? "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2015-09-15 20:17 -0700

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