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I think it is a genuine attempt to gain a diversity of ideas on how thermodynamics might affect the human condition. One might find a real jewel among the ideas, relevant to something completely different a person might be interested in, so I personally see value there.
I find the format of the web page chaotic. Like a wall of text sprinkled with pictures, but not much space to separate different ideas.
The individual articles seem better organized, but not organzied nearly as well as the Wiki site.
I like the site; some of the ideas are well summarized, and thought out. But there seems to be quite a lot of craziness; they seem to be taking Goethe's ideas at face value (his Science was only of poetic value), and chemical equations for relationships, which just seems like rhetorical math to me. (man + woman = baby, therefore man + woman - baby = 0)
ruveyn wrote:
Thermodynamic laws are the same for all heat engines including living organisms. The characteristic of a live thing is that it exists and can live only when it is far from equilibrium.
ruveyn
Of course. One of my favorite books is Schrodingers "What is Life?", in which he (somewhat trivally) defines negentropy, a measure of order, as klog 1/D (d = atomistic disorder). Thermodynamics applies to every energy transformation, and spontaneous reaction. But I didn't see a lot of scientific content on that site; just quotes from high IQ (as the site repeatedly says) scientists. The front page even claims the work/volume/pressure law describes (in SI units) the work done by a person standing in a crowd. Surely, it's BS? People aren't ideal gases.
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28 Apr 2011, 2:31 pm
