Re: this is for the Lyme Crymynals


"mockingbird" <mockingbirdstl@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> this presentation overused the word goodness...

Um, the website, notice the NAME of the website, the THEME
of the website.

And, your comment reminded me of the movie "Amadeus",
in which at one point in his career, young Mozart was in the employ
of a King of an European country... and after a concert- a new
composition played/directed by Mozart in all his usual brilliance,
the King took the stage, and thanked Mozart, but yet
felt as an "authority", that he must mildly criticize Mozart's piece,
at least in some minor category, and was fudging and hedging
that the composition had a flaw which he could not readily identify,
and when pressed by Mozart,
the King finally exclaimed that the piece had "too many notes in it"...

and Mozart asked him:
"Sire, which notes would you like me to take out?"


> moreover I disagree with
> the conclusion that acts of goodness outweigh acts of
> destruction...this violates the second law of thermodynamics, in my
> opinion...

And there are a LOT of "opinions" about The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.

One I like is the wording of the 2nd Law and specifically the word "tends".

Here is an opinion of the 2nd Law that I share:

"Many philosophers and novelists learned about the second law
only from physicists.

Unfortunately, physics emphasizes what happens in a closed
or isolated system of tiny particles rather than in our real open-flow
world of trees, shiny steel, sunshine, rocks and people,
the world of sun energy and things made out of chemicals.

Thus, many readers of popular philosophy articles and recent novels
have been misled and frightened by talk about the second law
as a fast-approaching doomsday. The writers pass too quickly
over the fact that it is a *tendency*
rather than a prediction
of what will happen right away.

In many real-world chemicals and things the second law
can be obstructed or hindered for millions of years.
Certainly, the mountains of the world haven't all slid down to sea level
in the last several hundred centuries! Similar to my fingers holding
the small rock (but millions of times more tightly), even overhanging stone
in cliffs or mountains is bonded, chemically bonded, to adjacent atoms
in the stone and so the stone can't obey the second law tendency
for it to fall to a lower level.

Here, as in countless other examples, the second law is blocked
by the strength of chemical bonds. It takes a huge number of repetitions
of outside energy input like freezing and thawing and earthquakes
and windy rainstorms to break the bonds along even a weak bond-line,
make a crack, and free particles or pebbles or rocks so they can follow
the second law by falling to a lower level.
(But even then, they may just fall into a mile-high valley and be kept
from dropping any closer to sea level; so here in a different way
the second law is further hindered.)

Blockage of the second law is absolutely necessary for us to be alive
and happy.
Not one of the complex chemical substances in our body and few
in the things we enjoy would exist for a microsecond if the second law
wasn't obstructed.
Its tendency is never eliminated but, fortunately for us,
there are a huge number of compounds in which it is blocked
for our lifetimes and even far longer."






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