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Legum non sanximus, eam tantum exsequimus.
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(We don't make the laws, we just enforce them.)
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Contact the <a href="mailto:%22mwsberg@gmail.com%22">ThermoDynamic Police</a>.Mark Stromberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14301611969353649699noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-56136033002527751982008-09-14T20:36:00.000-07:002008-09-14T20:37:10.310-07:00The Thermodynamic Police was formed to enforce the Laws of Thermodynamics. The oath of office reads:I, ____________________________, being of sound mind, do hereby swear to protect and reinforce, to the best of my ability, the Laws of Thermodynamics. I promise and affirm that I will assist, to the extent necessary, in maintaining the energy content of the Universe constant and will encourage, aidMark Stromberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14301611969353649699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-46670158777570891592007-10-08T19:45:00.000-07:002007-10-08T19:52:15.094-07:0010/08/07While searching through some papers this weekend I came across a letter from Dr. Stanley Pons. It is dated 5/23/1989.In the letter he accepts membership in the ThermoDynamic Police and solicits membership for Martin Fleischman. He includes signed oaths of office for the organization. (See the oath below)As a lark I had offered Dr. Pons membership as a statement of an open mind toward his Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-1125719205131901752005-09-02T20:39:00.000-07:002005-09-02T20:47:48.773-07:00There must be some violation of the Laws going on. The USA is going downhill at an ever increasing speed while less and less energy is put into the system. Is that entropy? Are we following the laws downward into a purple spiral?We had this horrific hurricane and all of our systems failed. Our Federal, State, and local governments failed us. Bodies are floating in the streets, people are starvingPaulnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-1108345428971489362005-02-13T17:40:00.000-08:002005-02-13T17:43:48.973-08:00It has been some time since I posted anything to the Blog. In the meantime entropy continues to increase, thank God. We have had only about 1,000 hits. They have come from many countries which is rewarding to see.Best regards to all of you around the world.Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-1065926309472339492003-10-11T19:38:00.000-07:002003-11-03T15:18:32.200-08:00In the few months this Blog has been around persons from 25 countries have somehow located it. Welcome to all and remember---"We don't make the laws, we just enforce them." Report all suspected cases via email and we will follow up at the appropriate tribunal. Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-1065753491058595992003-10-09T19:38:00.000-07:002003-10-09T19:38:10.730-07:00The August, 2003 issue of Wired Magazine has an interesting article entitled "The Antigravity Underground, The Fantastic Floating Device Called a Lifter Has No Moving Parts, No Onboard Fuel and No Shortage of Wide-eyed Admirers." It even has plans to make one for yourself. You throw the electrical juice to it and it levitates. Nobody knows the mechanism of its liftoff however.
Speaking of Wired.Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-1065752901818221272003-10-09T19:28:00.000-07:002003-10-09T19:28:21.626-07:00The British scientist C.P. Snow had a convenient way of remembering the three laws:
1. You cannot win (that is, you cannot get something for nothing, because matter and energy are conserved).
2. You cannot break even (you cannot return to the same energy state, because there is always an increase in disorder; entropy always increases).
3. You cannot get out of the game (because absolute Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-1060390196399347132003-08-08T17:49:00.000-07:002003-08-08T17:49:56.246-07:00Check these guys out ----- Macatea Productions
Publishers of technical books and ebooks, especially textbooks in
engineering. Currently in print are books on thermodynamics, technical
writing, data analysis, and molecular dynamics simulation.
Their website also provides commentary on technical writing
(www.macatea.com/attic/) and thermodynamics (www/macatea.com/workshop/). The
thermo pagePaulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-1060300109401418922003-08-07T16:48:00.000-07:002003-08-07T16:48:29.266-07:00We realize that, according to current knowledge, it is indeed impossible to actually violate the Laws of Thermodynamics. We are however enforcing the laws by looking for those proposing ideas, designs, or projects that would attempt to "mute the immutable."
To report such a proposed violation send an email to the ThermoDynamic Police at the Hotmail contact address on this page.Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-938589812003-05-06T05:52:00.000-07:002003-05-06T05:52:57.896-07:00The Thermodynamics Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago has an interesting list of web sites related to thermodynamics. Check them out. Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-933699582003-04-27T18:29:00.000-07:002003-04-27T18:29:05.663-07:00A recent article discussed in the National Geographic gave us pause. NG discusses the possibility of dangling a long rope from a satellite in space to the earth's surface and using this connection as a sort of elevator to lift objects into space. This technology sounds too good to be true. Therefore we ask our officers to investigate this technology as a possible and proposed violation. Would Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-932110242003-04-24T17:59:00.000-07:002003-04-24T18:00:31.000-07:00The newspaper headline read "Man who sold shares in 'perpetual motion machine' dies". And with that it was too late for the TDP to swing into action. According to the story Edwin V. Gray had been selling shares in his company, Zetex. "An estimated 2,000 shareholders, half of them from Kansas, invested about $10 Million in Zetex stock." His machine reportedly could launch missiles and space Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-929306392003-04-20T07:12:00.000-07:002003-05-03T07:38:56.000-07:00The University of Wisconsin hosts an interesting web site call The Scout Report. A report is issued weekly and presents a brief description, with a link, of web sites of potential interest. Web sites described are from a broad range of fields of interest. I usually find one or two sites of interest and link to and look at them in more depth. There is a related site that provides the same review Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-928172002003-04-17T20:41:00.000-07:002003-08-31T18:25:15.480-07:00In 1989 the world was abuzz with a furor over “Cold Fusion”. Drs. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann purported to be able to produce energy through a cold fusion reaction. The ThermoDynamic Police remained skeptical. In May 1989 the ThermoDynamic Police sent the following letter to Dr. Pons, then working at the University of Utah.
"When I read some time ago in the Wall Street Journal that you Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-927484692003-04-16T18:01:00.000-07:002003-04-19T09:39:55.000-07:00A search on Google using the key words "creationism" and "thermodynamics" produces an interesting set of sites that address this hotly contested battle of beliefs. Without endorsing any one of them consider this site as a place to start.
From looking at some of the sites it appears the ThermoDynamic Police may have to assign a special agent to this issue.
Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-925092092003-04-12T18:48:00.000-07:002003-04-15T14:15:50.000-07:00We ride to work on our Carnot cycles.Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-923283712003-04-09T18:29:00.000-07:002003-04-16T17:48:01.000-07:00The British scientist C.P. Snow had a convenient way of remembering the three laws:
1. You cannot win (that is, you cannot get something for nothing, because matter and energy are conserved).
2. You cannot break even (you cannot return to the same energy state, because there is always an increase in disorder; entropy always increases).
3. You cannot get out of the game (because absolute Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-923282032003-04-09T18:26:00.000-07:002003-04-09T18:26:17.670-07:00Third Law of Thermodynamics (absolute zero) -- The entropy of a hypothetical pure, perfect, crystalline substance at absolute zero temperature is zero.Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-923277442003-04-09T18:17:00.000-07:002003-04-09T18:26:53.000-07:00The Second Law of Thermodynamics (entropy) states -- in all energy exchanges, if no energy enters or leaves the system, the potential energy of the state will always be less than that of the initial state.Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-923274362003-04-09T18:12:00.000-07:002003-04-09T18:12:17.826-07:00First Law of Thermodynamics (conservation) -- Energy is neither created nor destroyed, it changes from one form to another.
Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-923268292003-04-09T18:01:00.000-07:002003-04-09T18:31:31.000-07:00ThermoDynamic Police officers have identified several projects attempting to violate the Laws. For example, there was the man who jacked up the rear end of his volkswagon. That way it would get better gas mileage, since it was always going downhill.Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-922890462003-04-09T06:43:00.000-07:002003-04-09T06:58:10.000-07:00The Thermodynamic Police was formed to enforce the Laws of Thermodynamics. The oath of office reads:
I, ____________________________, being of sound mind, do hereby swear to protect and reinforce, to the best of my ability, the Laws of Thermodynamics. I promise and affirm that I will assist, to the extent necessary, in maintaining the energy content of the Universe constant and will encourage, Paulnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256768.post-921722082003-04-07T13:44:00.000-07:002003-04-08T21:11:14.000-07:00Welcome to the Thermodynamic Police Blog.
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