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Thread #31468   Message #415317
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
11-Mar-01 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: What DO Physicists Think About?
Subject: RE: What DO Physicists Think About?
Hell can't be all that hot; some book of about 1518 (which I put on some thread here a long time ago). Said Rumbelow was only three miles away, and as near as I can figure out Rumbelow was about the next best thing to heaven (17th century Rock Candy Mountian, and much earlier Land of Cockaigne (now Cocaine), and that sort of thing.)

At any rate Boyle's Law is only a rough approximation to real gas behaviour. Vander Wall's equation is a lat better but not 100% accurate (that triple point does in any purely analytical expression), and with computers now that cubic equation is a snap to solve. Speculators like to cogitate about entropy's relation to information and noise, but always forget that the sign is different.