All I know is PV = nRT. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Thu, May 29, 2025, 9:45 AM Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I can throw Nick (and George) a life ring. Meteorology is very > concerned with how changes in temperature happen, whether an increase is > induced through adding heat or by adding pressure is very important. But > it's not thermodynamics. What does a thermodynamic system want, George? > It wants to be isolated and at equilibrium. What happens when it can't get > what it wants? Things that thermodynamics isn't about. > > I mean, haven't we gone over this multiple times before? Verbally > logicking your way through natural science is a way to enumerate how > natural science does not correspond to verbal logic. I remember the video > in which Harvard students were ambushed at commencement with questions > about how the moon phases or the seasons of the year were astronomically > based. Brilliant wrong answers, many more wrong answers than correct, but > all brilliant and mostly delivered with great confidence even though they > were obviously wild guesses. > > Ask George what Le Monde thinks causes the weather? > > -- rec -- > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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