Extrait de la préface de Thermodynamique par Yves Rocard, 1952, Masson &Cie.
Quels étaient les défauts de l agrégation il y a 70 ans ?
Quel est cet élève conventionnel ?
#sciences #thermodynamic #iteachphysics

#Thermodynamic:
Colloqially, the Laws of Thermodynamics [also in Economics] are:
Zeroth: „You must play the game.“
First: „You can't win the game.“
Second: „You can't break even.“
Third: „You can't quit the game.“
(Steve Keen)

I persist in being very angry they are calling this a #climate crisis. Then people say "The #weather's warm, you power hungry authoritarian!" and the "science sloganeers" then FALSELY sloganize "Climate is Not Weather".

No, it is, you slogan-shouting halfwit.

Where you went wrong was calling it a CLIMATE problem in the first place. It is a #THERMODYNAMIC crisis. Earth is now a net ABSORBER of solar stuff-that-moves-things (energy, capacity to do work).

(to be continued briefly)

#arxivfeed :

"A thermodynamical model of non-deterministic computation in cortical neural networks"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.03.518978v1

#Neuroscience #Neuro #Brain #ComputationalNeuroscience #Computations #ProbabilisticCoding #Thermodynamic #Hamiltonian

It's remarkable that a renowned astrophysicist and science communicator lacks the most basic understanding of thermodynamics to realise that livestock need to eat, and that they will have to eat more than they produce.

Excellent analysis by Earthling Ed.

https://youtu.be/P44D1FcCZug

#agriculture #diets #vegan #veganism #vegetarian #thermodynamic #physics

« thoughtless mathematicians […] decided that it would be amusing to name a very important new #mathematical function communication "#entropy" because "no one knows what [#thermodynamic] #entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage (#JohnVonNeumann speaking to #ClaudeShannon) […] a cruel #joke imposed on generations of scientists and non-scientists because many authors have completely mixed up #information "#entropy" and #thermodynamic #entropy »
http://entropysimple.oxy.edu/content.htm