CoE would still apply in this case the total energy before = total energy after energy the substance = energy of substance + energy of escaping neutrinos.
A cooling substance that violated CoE wouldn't be producing enough particles or radiation to balance the equation. Harry On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:32:54 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] > >Don't forget that there are two ways to violate of CoE. Either by the > >creation of energy or by the destruction energy. > >Harry > > > That opens an interesting possibility. Suppose that heat could be > converted into > neutrino/anti-neutrino pairs, which then escaped. No thermal balance, > hence the > substance would "spontaneously" cool down. > One can broaden the concept to include various types of conversion other > than > into neutrinos. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html > >
