A Fourth Law of Thermodynamics ??
From: Gilbert Pollnow (gpollnow_at_vbe.com)
Date: 10/26/04
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Date: 25 Oct 2004 18:34:55 -0700
 A FOURTH LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS ???
Originally presented by the author at the American Chemical Society
Meeting in Miami Beach, FL April 1985.
Gilbert F. Pollnow, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
ABSTRACT
In the-Report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and
Administration of Justice entitled,
"The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society" (1967) it is categorically
stated that "No single formula, no
single theory, no single generalization can explain the vast range of
behavior called crime". This paper is an
attempt to develop a holistic approach to this problem, consistent
with modern theories of chaotic dynamics
and pattern formation, along with supporting experimental evidence
which is consistent with certain
commonly observed forms of animal and human behavior.
Modern evolutionary theories of self-organization in animal and human
systems are based on the
adaptability and plasticity of behavior which are characteristic of
non-linear systems far from equilibrium.
Both the individuals and their societies are thus able to perform
relatively complex activities with a
minimum of genetic programming, as a result of environmental
conditions triggering different modes of
behavior. Unfortunately, this very useful social paradigm ignores the
parallel dynamic tendency for both
the individual and the group to exploit all possible processes in
order to maximize the total flow of energy,
and the rate of Free-energy dissipation, in the constant kinetic
search for equilibrium for the combination as
also suggested by Alfred J. Lotka: "Natural Selection as a Physical
Principle (Proc. National Academy of
Science, 1922, p. 153).
"But systems receiving a steady supply of available energy (such as
the earth illuminated by the sun), and
evolving, not toward a true equilibrium, but (probably) toward a
stationary state, the laws of
thermodynamics are no longer sufficient to determine the end state; a
catalyst, in general, does affect the
final steady state. Here selection may operate not only among
components taking part in transformations,
but also upon catalysts, in particular upon auto-catalytic or
auto-catakinetic constituents of the system.
Such auto-catakinetic constituents are the living organisms, and to
them, therefore the principles here
discussed, apply.
That the principle of selection is competent to yield information
beyond the scope of the laws of
thermodynamics has been very clearly set forth, independently, by H.
Guillcminot. The present writer has
long realized that the principle is capable of such application; that
it functions, as it were, as a third law of
thermodynamics (or a fourth, if the third place be given to the Nernst
principle). If he has not before
this date, explicitly stated the case, this is mainly because his
writings have followed a definite, systematic
plan, announced in his early publications.'3 Viewing evolution as a
change in the distribution of matter
among the components of a physical system, the study of evolution
naturally divides itself into two fields.
The one, which might be termed the stoichiometry of evolution, deals
with mass relations: the relative
amounts of different species of matter present, and the changes in
these amounts the kinetics of evolution.
The second field of study is the dynamics or energeiics of evolution,
the scope of which is sufficiently
indicated by these terms."
It is hypothesized by the author, that the resulting spatially
oriented spontaneous dynamics of animate
organisms ought to be observable as a periodic outwardly directed
literal "escaping tendency" when caged
in a sparse environment, but with an abundant energy supply, or
externally restrained as on a tether. In
over 150 trials with laboratory mice, gerbils (even when born and
raised in the cage), the predicted chaotic
dynamic patterns were confirmed and documented photographically. The
creative and perverse criminal
human social implications of this innate, universal, dynamic, energy
conversion principle are most
profound and almost limitless, suggesting that children must be taught
conforming behavior in any society
that is to survive the chaotic dynamics imposed by an abundantly
available energy supply.
Originally Copyrighted in part 4-4-75, under the title: "The Origin
of Crime and Other Non-conforming
Behavior" Registration #A-623070
The reader should visit the author's blog site for some of the
experimental details:
gilbertpollnow.blogspot.com
file: A Fourth Law abstract 102504
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