WATTS SIDEKICK COPS PLEA ON 2nd LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
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Eschenbach's belated ( it has taken more than a decade ) defection to the winning side in the thermodynamics wars may be related less to the Sky Dragon die off than advances in computer graphics in undergraduate physics teaching that have rendered the undeniable too obvious to deny: Unless you're a Watts fan who views the First Law as Fake News and embaces Eschenbach's Law of Radiative Equilibrium: |
" If there is a block of wood between you and a block of ice, if you remove the wood, you’ll get colder because you will be absorbing less radiation from the ice than you were from the wood. You no longer have the wood to shield you from the ice."