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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

DetlefK

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2. Just wait until they get to the chapter of Thermodynamics.

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Thu Oct 13, 2016, 03:36 AM

Oct 2016

Gay-Lussac's streaming-experiment is a simple thought-experiment to show entropy via expansion of gas. Except when you calculate how much entropy actually gets created, you see that there's a possibility for entropy to get destroyed.

Oops. We just disproved Intelligent Design.

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Interesting find on a local Goodwill bookshelf [View all] Orrex Oct 2016 OP

Sounds like something my home-schooling neighbors would have. progressoid Oct 2016 #1

Just wait until they get to the chapter of Thermodynamics. DetlefK Oct 2016 #2