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| On Sep 25, 7:00***pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...***yahoo.com> wrote: > When European taxpayers realized that, in order for Stephen Hawking to > get the Nobel prize, a 9 billion Large Hadron Collider should be > built, they gave the money without fuss - European taxpayers would > give everything for the development of the ideas of Stephen Hawking, > Stephen King and Harry Potter. > > The problem is that, while developing his ideas, Stephen Hawking might > have been misled by the ideas of Sir Arthur Eddington, and this Sir > Arthur Eddington is by no means the most honest scientist in the > history of science: > > http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/bot.html > Stephen Hawking: "This argument about whether or not the universe had > a beginning, persisted into the 19th and 20th centuries. It was > conducted mainly on the basis of theology and philosophy, with little > consideration of observational evidence. This may have been > reasonable, given the notoriously unreliable character of cosmological > observations, until fairly recently. The cosmologist, Sir Arthur > Eddington, once said, 'Don't worry if your theory doesn't agree with > the observations, because they are probably wrong.' But if your theory > disagrees with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is in bad trouble. > In fact, the theory that the universe has existed forever is in > serious difficulty with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The Second > Law, states that disorder always increases with time. Like the > argument about human progress, it indicates that there must have been > a beginning." > > Instead of just parroting Sir Arthur Eddington, Stephen Hawking should > have read Jos Uffink, officially the greatest expert on the > foundations of thermodynamics: > > http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00000313/ > Jos Uffink: "The historian of science and mathematician Truesdell made > a detailed study of the historical development of thermodynamics in > the period 1822-1854. He characterises the theory, even in its present > state, as 'a dismal swamp of obscurity' (1980, p. 6) and 'a prime > example to show that physicists are not exempt from the madness of > crowds' (ibid. p. 8) ...Clausius' verbal statement of the second law > makes no sense...All that remains is a Mosaic prohibition; a century > of philosophers and journalists have acclaimed this commandment; a > century of mathematicians have shuddered and averted their eyes from > the unclean... Seven times in the past thirty years have I tried to > follow the argument Clausius offers... and seven times has it blanked > and gravelled me... I cannot explain what I cannot understand....This > summary leads to the question whether it is fruitful to see > irreversibility or time-asymmetry as the essence of the second law. Is > it not more straightforward, in view of the unargued statements of > Kelvin, the bold claims of Clausius and the strained attempts of > Planck, to give up this idea? I believe that Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa was > right in her verdict that the discussion about the arrow of time as > expressed in the second law of the thermodynamics is actually a RED > HERRING." > > So in the end Stephen Hawking may not get the Nobel prize and European > taxpayers may stop giving so much money for the development of his > ideas. > > Pentcho Valev > pva...***yahoo.com REPLY: VIDYARDHI NANDURI COSMOLOGY DEFINITION: Cosmology is a borderland between science and Philosophy Cosmology deals with Multi-Universe concepts and the Universe as part of Cosmos. Cosmology details Creation, stability and dissolution of the Universe or parts thereof. Cosmology covers broad Prime drive functions and links : COSMOLOGY FROM PHILOSOPHY TO VEDAS 1. Cosmology in Vedas 2.Cosmology in Philosophy 3.Science of Philosophy 4. Basic Philosophy FROM SCIENCE TO COSMOLOGY 1. Basic Science 2. Philosophy of Science 3.Cosmogony-Astrophysics 4. Cosmology -Present Day under Revision NATURE TO COSMIC DIVINE 1.Nature 2.Divine Function in Nature 3. Divine Universe 4.Cosmos Divine Key Words: Cosmology Definition, Cosmology Primer, Cosmology Drive, Cosmology Science, cosmology Vedas, Cosmology Philosophy, Cosmology Nature, Cosmic Divine Function, Cosmology interlinks, Cosmology Space Science, Cosmology Knowledge Base, Knowledge Expansion, creation in the Universe, Stability of the Universe , Dissolution of the part of the Universe Ref:COSMIC YOGA VISION SERIES-II: Heart of the Universe-Nov 2006 -Book By Vidyardhi Nanduri Copy Rights TXU 1-364-245 - The Science in Philosophy- Pridhvi Viswam Asya Dharineem Cosmos yoga vision series-II- cover upto 10^5 Light Years — Centre of the Universe [Vidyardhi Nanduri] CONCENTRATION, MEDITATION AND DEDICATION ARE THE KEYS FOR PROGRESS INDEX- All Books - CONTACT AUTHOR- http://www.ebookomatic.com/publish/A...ry.asp?Aid=241 COSMOLOGY VEDAS-Interlinks-FREE DOWNLOAD : http://www.buymyebook.com/buy/author...p?EbookId=1422 |
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