Second law violation? Let\'s ask Matt (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 11:25 (4910 days ago) @ David Turell

Granville Sewell has a paper which thinks the second law is violated on Earth. He is a U. Texas math professor:
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> > There's many problems with the paper, first, as a mathematician, he does provide an interesting analysis of the entropy equations, but his only real argument is this "...this has been noticed by relatively few people, no doubt because usually the special case of isotropic heat conduction or diffusion is assumed, ..." 
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> Thank you for your analysis. I knew we were degrading ourselves and many other sources of energy outside of us. Your comments make perfect sense.-I want to add exactly what I mean by "mathematically this is true." You remember my mathematician joke ending with "...at least one side of which is black?" It's one of those same quirks of mathematics where I can say "We can build a 17-sided figure on paper but not a 19-sided one." We can't build the 19-sided one purely because no one has provided a proof yet, though trivially, either of us could write a figure with 19-sides. -This kind of "gotcha" only exists in mathematics. -What really... irritated me on that paper is his language "in the special case of ... diffusion." How on God's green earth that's a special case defies explanation and I literally have no idea how this paper made it past review...

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