Count Rumford vindicated?

Harry

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote:

> Terry Blanton wrote:
>
>
>  Jones Beene wrote:
>>
>> "Self cooling" is an interesting proposition. It may not be as exciting
>> as excess heating, but many new uses would be expected to materialize if it
>> can be engineered efficiently. There is a certain kind of semantic
>> compatibility between "self-cooling" and Dirac's "sea of negative energy"
>> which could be no accident.
>>
>
> You're threatening Feynman's Nobel. 🤓
>
>
> Well, there's a twist here, since Feynman thought the "Principle of Least
> Action" was fundamental and in fact wrote his PhD thesis on the subject.
> That Principle can be interpreted as supporting a general concept of "deep
> cooling" in the Dirac perspective of the vacuum being an infinite sea of
> accessible negative energy. The key word being "accessible."
>
> If nature has provided us with a bottomless heat sink, or free-cold so to
> speak, then a lot of time has been wasted by inventors looking for
> free-heat. At the other end of the spectrum, Doppler cooling and laser
> cooling point to the emerging possibility that a heat sink can be active,
> allowing energy to be extracted from "cold"... or at least from ambient.
>
>

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