Thanks, Tom, I always value you suggestions and comments. On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting query, Nick, but I am finding that it is always interesting > (so far) to (1) ask the AI to provide comments and footnotes with > hyperlinks of why it did what it did and #2 run the same query multiple > times in the same platform over set time phases and the same thing in > multiple platforms. Then compare an contrast. > Tom > > ======================= > Tom Johnson > Inst. for Analytic Journalism > Santa Fe, New Mexico > 505-577-6482 > ======================= > > On Wed, May 28, 2025, 12:26 PM Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Colleagues, >> I am trying to "design" the simplest sort of phenomenon that demands the >> concept of entropy. My first description left many ambiguities which I >> have attempted to correct in this revision. Unfortunately, the revision >> has gotten horribly long. Still, I am hoping that at least a few of you >> -- as you love me -- will respond. Here is the prompt. >> >> Our goal is to juxtapose two bodies of air, of equal temperature and >> volume but different histories to see which can exert the most pressure. >> Thus we hope to separate the effects of temperature, per se, from the >> effects of how that temperature was arrived at. We start with a single >> cylinder of air at one bar (roughly sea-level pressure) and 50 degrees >> C, which contains three slidable/peggable dividers. One is installed at >> the exact middle of the cylinder, the other two at opposite ends. All >> motions of the sliders will be quasi- static (infinitely) slow). The >> cylinders and the sliders are designed to be adiabatic—no heat or mass can >> pass through them—except in the following two respects. Just to the >> right of the central slider are installed two ports, one through which air >> may be admitted or released and a second through which heat may enter or >> depart through conduction. These ports will always be assumed to be >> adiabatically sealed unless explicitly described otherwise. Finally, on >> either side of the central slider is installed a temperature sensor so that >> we may know the temperature within the two chambers. >> >> With this equipment in hand, we begin the preparation of the two >> juxtaposed chambers. On the left, we push in the slider until the left >> chamber reaches a temperature of 20 degrees C. and we peg it there. We >> measure the distance from the left slider to the central slider . Now, >> we open the heat and air ports on the right side of the central slider and >> we push in the right slider until it is the same distance from the >> central slider as the left slider is on the other side. (Thus we have >> guaranteed that the volume of the two adjacent chambers is the same) Now >> we close the air port. Through the still open heat port we admit just >> enough heat to bring the temperature up to 20 degrees C. and then we >> seal it. So now we have, as planned, two adjacent chambers, of equal >> temperature and volume. Now we unpeg the central divider. Which way, >> if any, does it move and why? >> >> >> -- >> nick >> .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / >> ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. >> 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/ >> > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > 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/ > -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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