On Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 4:56:58 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> Does E have a maximal value under statistical mechanics? * *We will reach a point of maximum entropy when the heat death of the universe occurs, but we have a very long way to go before that happens.* *> If not, the initial state at the BB could have any E without posing a problem. * *The Big Bang doesn't have to have produced zero entropy, just entropy that is lower than what we have now and lower than at any time we can observe with our telescopes. * *According to Statistical Mechanics, entropy of a closed system doesn't necessarily increase. It could remain the same or possibly decrease. That being the case, what basis is there to claim it must be lower when the BB happened, than today? AG * *> can you explain how a point particle, a photon, with zero width, can manifest a wave property with finite width?* *I've mentioned the following before.** You ask a question. I take the time to answer your question and try hard to write as clearly as possible. You then ask the EXACT same question again without challenging or mentioning anything I said or even given an indication that you had read my previous answer. I find such behavior annoying and I don't believe my attitude is unreasonable. * *If you read me better, you wouldn't become annoyed. You seem to think I deny photons have wave properties, or that redshifting doesn't occur as they traverse cosmological distances. It's your MODEL of the stretching which seems non sensical. AG * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* e44 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/75bf2a7d-9251-479c-b846-480b9cf85702n%40googlegroups.com.
