Re: Policy asked to investigate entropy-claim in website of Turku University in Finland
- From: "Friar Broccoli" <EliasRK@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 1 Apr 2007 18:39:16 -0700
On Apr 1, 11:25 am, "Robert Carnegie" <rja.carne...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Perplexed in Peoria wrote:
it remains the case that each photon we receive from the sun
*increases* the entropy of the Earth. And that was the
entirely correct point of the entirely stupid creationist who
called in the cops. And then the university spokesman showed
himself to be even stupider by saying that analyzing the
thermodynamics of this situation is a Nobel-prize level
research topic.
It hasn't been explained simply enough for me that "each
photon we receive from the sun *increases* the entropy of the
Earth".
I am certainly willing to provide a simple (and probably wrong
too) explanation of this.
To keep things simple, imagine that everything of importance
occurs exclusively in the atmosphere. Now imagine that the
atmosphere is in a bottle (which in a way it is). If the
atmosphere was at zero entropy it would be lying at the bottom
of the bottle as a rectangle (or maybe as a platonic chair).
From now on every time a photon hits the chair energy is added,
increasing the entropy of the chair until it finally decays
into a cloud of gas. If you add more energy to the gas, entropy
*increases* even more.
Cordially;
Friar Broccoli
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