Re: (signatures please)

[Jim Green <JMGreen@SISNA.COM>]

Joel, this msg came from me;  ALL of my posts are automatically signed;
Further, if you don't show a "From:" line in your header, it may be that
your reader is faulty or that its parameters are inappropriately set.

Folks, if this present msg is not signed with name, mailto:, and http: URLs
, please tell me.  Maybe it is _my_ reader (EudoraPro422) which has gone awry.

Jim

At 02:19 PM 29-11-99 -0600, you wrote:
> You see below what my mail system gives me for information. It does not tell
> me who wrote the message; all I'm told is that this message came from
> Phys-L.
>
> Please sign your messages.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joel Rauber
> Joel_Rauber@sdstate.edu
>
> >
> > At 08:03 PM 11/25/99 -0700, Jim Green wrote:
> >
> > >in my attempt to be as general as possible (as is my want in
> > >asking questions), I do include stat mech in classical
> > physics and I even
> > >extend this to thermo ...
> >
> > Sounds sensible to me.
> >
> > On the back-side of that coin, there are cases where it
> > *does* make sense
> > to pretend not to know something.  For instance, re-doing
> > geometry without
> > the parallel postulate was quite fruitful.
> >
> > Still, the main  point is that AFAIK there is no
> > self-consistent classical
> > theory, and we shouldn't apologize for making nonclassical arguments
> > whenever that's the shortest path to the right answer.
> >
> > >although my dear friend Sadi would not be all that happy.
> >
> > Are you sure about that?  Carnot was a pretty smart dude.
> > There are some
> > prissy pedants who try to construct a purely classical
> > thermodynamics, but
> > Carnot wasn't one of them.
> >

Jim Green
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