There was a discussion on the everything list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/thread/ae327624f1257170 where among other things there was discussion between David Nyman and 1Z on whether heat was eliminated onltologically after its reduction to molecular motion. It has started afther the next statement Ontological reduction does not necessarily entail epistemological elimination, but it does entail ontological elimination. My comment to [...]
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March 12, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: philosophy, physics, thermodynamics
Social Tagging: entropy • everything-list
Filed under: philosophy, physics, thermodynamics
Social Tagging: entropy • everything-list
February 19, 2011 by Evgenii Rudnyi · Leave a Comment
Filed under: biology, thermodynamics
Social Tagging: entropy • information
Filed under: biology, thermodynamics
Social Tagging: entropy • information
J. theor. Biol. (1970) 28, 411-413 Note on Complex Systems STUART A. NEWMAN http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-5193(70)90078-0 A short paper that states: A view is presented which argues that hierarchically organized, complex systems are in no sense unlikely to come about in a world in which thermodynamics is operative, and that they, in fact, often represent states of [...]
December 25, 2010 by Evgenii Rudnyi · 1 Comment
Filed under: alife, thermodynamics
Social Tagging: entropy • information
Filed under: alife, thermodynamics
Social Tagging: entropy • information
Introduction I used to work in chemical thermodynamics for quite a while. No doubt, I have heard of the informational entropy but I have always thought that it has nothing to do with the entropy in chemical thermodynamics. Recently I have started reading papers on artificial life and it came to me as a complete [...]
I have received from the author a reprint of his paper I.A. Stepanov, Thermodynamics of substances with negative thermal expansion and negative compressibility, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 356 (2010) 1168-1172 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.03.013 where it is claimed: It is shown that for substances with positive thermal expansion and positive compressibility, and for substances with negative thermal expansion [...]
In the blog of Prof Claes Johnson http://claesjohnson.blogspot.com/2010/05/atmospheric-lapse-rate.html I have found a link to his book Computational Thermodynamics that immediately caught my attention as I used to work in this area some time ago. Unfortunately his book happens to have nothing with what people understand under Computational Thermodynamics, rather his goal was to suggest a new Second [...]
I have discovered this site http://thermodynamics.materialgeek.com/ after a pingback from it, as a response on my comment on the book Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach. The owner of the blog collects blog posts about thermodynamics. If is fun to see what people write about thermodynamics.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/540 The Russian poet Mayakovsky has once written “Lenin even now is more alive than all the living“. After the nice video from MIT, I can only paraphrase Mayakovsky “The Second Law even now is more alive than all the living“.
The text is written in December 2008. I review the final chapters 6 and 7 of the book Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach by Wassim M. Haddad, Vijay Sekhar Chellaboina, & Sergey G. Nersesov http://blog.rudnyi.ru/2010/05/thermodynamics-dynamical-systems.html Chapter 6: Thermodynamic Systems with Linear Energy Exchange In this chapter the authors consider the case from Chapter 3 but [...]
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