tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 13 08:47:11 1996
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Re: paghDIch
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>Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 04:39:21 -0700
>From: [email protected]
>At 12:28 PM 5/2/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>>Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 08:17:45 -0700
>>>From: "R.E.Newcombe" <[email protected]>
>>
>>>So what's wrong with paghDIch ?
>>
>>>Never heard of "Newton's zero th Law of thermodynamics" ?
>>
>>I've heard of the Zeroth Law... but I don't think it was Newton's. It also
>>doesn't make much sense for it to have been an named so by an early
>>scientist in the field: I think what happened was they had the three laws,
>>named first second and third... and then somebody realized there was a more
>>basic one that the others presumed but wasn't stated (basically, that heat
>>is heat), and that became the Zeroth.
>You're taking about Isaac Asimov's Laws of Robotics.(I'd like to quote them,
>but my hard disk was wipped and I'd have to type them all in.)Basicly:
It is I who am the ever-mysterious "you" in the attribution above.
No, I'm not thinking of Asimov's laws of Robotics (I've heard of them). I
was thinking of the laws of thermodynamics. That's why I typed
"thermodynamics" and not "robotics" (it wasn't a misspelling.) I don't
know which came first; I believe the thermodynamics ones came first (Asimov
has written stories about the laws of thermodynamics). Loosely translated
(and from memory): (0) heat is heat. (1) You can't win (get more energy
than you put in) (2) You can't break even (do anything without losing any
energy to heat) except at absolute zero (3) You can't get to absolute zero,
thanks for playing. It's the old "You can't win, you can't break even, you
can't quit thge game."
~mark
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