Former RPI student: "Only inspired insight guided by faith in the simplicity of nature somehow revealed the interplay of concepts of energy and entropy"-Callen
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Jun 3, 2024, 10:41:28 AM6/3/24
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Hey Deepak!,
Nice to see you!:
https://archive.ph/MFIcn#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603114022/https://bme.umich.edu/people/nagrath-deepak/#https://archive.ph/DkzcN
This is Tim Rappl (in looking for you; then, having recently switched to trying yandex, looking for me, I just found this: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Timothy-J-Rappl-12090931). Maybe you remember me? I graduated top of the class in Chem-E from RPI in 2001. You had been my TA and stuff while I was there. You may recall that you strongly encouraged me to apply to MIT? I knew I didn’t want to go there, so when I got my rejection letter I was so happy (that I didn’t have to choose to say no) that I hung it on my bedroom door at my apartment (rather than my acceptance letter to Cal (one might ask Amit, Amit, or Erin))!
Well I ended up going to Cal, which was my top choice. I had thought I would most want to work with Arup (Chakraborty; who is now at MIT) when I went there, but I had pretty much decided within the first few weeks that grad-school wasn’t the answer to the seemingly dead-endedness of life in this world, and that Nitash (Balsara) had the only project I could see myself caring enough about, so I spent four or five years there – mostly smoking weed and surfing – before I finally got up there nerve to walk away.
That paid off immensely! But, it seems, only me and Jesus can appreciate “precisely not ~~it~~”. I reach out to you now because I keep thinking: is there anyone else I can try to bless “while the getting’s good.” (Enrique, it’s been a good long while since I last reached out to you, and I probably wouldn’t have now (?) if I had not thought to look up Deepak, but I’m super-glad for “the excuse” to include you! God Bless You and yours!!?)
I can break it down pretty easy (by now):
Thermodynamics *imagines* 3D systems. Thermodynamics explicitly confesses it is only good for equilibrium, where there is no tendency for change, where there are no causal relations between “the parts.” Looking at the “light cone” from physics confirms that there can be no causal relations in 3D. This should not be too controversial.
The problem is that, while not too controversial, it is terribly problematic! For causal relations we need 4D spacetime, but that leaves thermodynamics in the dust, and a huge gaping whole in science writ large! More than 100 years after Einstein, all of science is still plagued by classical notions of systems (and state), which have been thoroughly debunked!
“Stuff” is not the simple matter casual common sense makes it out to be. I stand in good stead when I (scream) say that I do not believe in matter per se. That there is no universe. Max Planck (with a c) was no chump! Thermodynamics says some useful stuff about the limits of what we can do, but what it imagines to get there is ultimately-illegitimate.
We need 4D spacetime for causal relations, but looking to 4D spacetime for systems is God’s equivalent of a parent asking their kid to go into the auto parts store to ask for “blinker fluid.” 4D is where the results are presented, but true causation comes before that. The genius step that is needed is to realize that among dimensions 0 and 1 of time there must be an other; there must be a co-creative dynamic! That means that there is no such thing as a singular 4D realm. Between (apriori cxmplxplura) you and (apriori cxmplxplura) me we each ordain our own. Not ~~it~~ happens, precisely, by a process of characteristic equi-valence, 2=x=2. Fundamental inter-personal uncertainty keeps us eternally individual. We ever harmonize, but never … reach an asymptote.
Anyway, I have this short paper/argument, based on the invention of the refrigerator, which proves that Determinism must fail to Freedom. I’d be honored for you (Enrique?) to consider precisely not ~~it~~. I also have a favorite philosopher I’d encourage you to consider, though his wikipedia page has recently been destroyed by popular consensus. (Not only that, google co-incidentally just turned off the search feature for his book! After I had been linking to it for years using the search feature to highlight where I was pointing: no results found) Evil does not repent; they go for worse and worse. Thank God I never had kids!
God is Love; Jesus is Lord; I~am: the way, the truth, and the life.
You can find me and my paper(s) here (for now at least):
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Herbert_Callen&oldid=3525075
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BitterHarvxst
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:George_Holmes_Howison&oldid=3524275
God Bless You and yours!,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjQq5rMlEY&t=Janelle+Moná+ –+Django+Jane&si= https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Planck&diff=prev&oldid=3525052
[B](https://archive.ph/dqUOf#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603031730/https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BitterHarvxst)[c](https://archive.ph/vMEMj#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603004755/https://groups.google.com/g/cxmplxplura#https://archive.ph/js4VF)[c](https://archive.ph/pocUw#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603004511/https://groups.google.com/g/cxmplxplura/c/wqW0UUFYs2M#https://archive.ph/YBQHN)
P.S. I’d be happy to read anything you might care to share about yourself.. (period-period) Hell, I’d be happy to read “Received.”
Nice to see you!:
https://archive.ph/MFIcn#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603114022/https://bme.umich.edu/people/nagrath-deepak/#https://archive.ph/DkzcN
This is Tim Rappl (in looking for you; then, having recently switched to trying yandex, looking for me, I just found this: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Timothy-J-Rappl-12090931). Maybe you remember me? I graduated top of the class in Chem-E from RPI in 2001. You had been my TA and stuff while I was there. You may recall that you strongly encouraged me to apply to MIT? I knew I didn’t want to go there, so when I got my rejection letter I was so happy (that I didn’t have to choose to say no) that I hung it on my bedroom door at my apartment (rather than my acceptance letter to Cal (one might ask Amit, Amit, or Erin))!
Well I ended up going to Cal, which was my top choice. I had thought I would most want to work with Arup (Chakraborty; who is now at MIT) when I went there, but I had pretty much decided within the first few weeks that grad-school wasn’t the answer to the seemingly dead-endedness of life in this world, and that Nitash (Balsara) had the only project I could see myself caring enough about, so I spent four or five years there – mostly smoking weed and surfing – before I finally got up there nerve to walk away.
That paid off immensely! But, it seems, only me and Jesus can appreciate “precisely not ~~it~~”. I reach out to you now because I keep thinking: is there anyone else I can try to bless “while the getting’s good.” (Enrique, it’s been a good long while since I last reached out to you, and I probably wouldn’t have now (?) if I had not thought to look up Deepak, but I’m super-glad for “the excuse” to include you! God Bless You and yours!!?)
I can break it down pretty easy (by now):
Thermodynamics *imagines* 3D systems. Thermodynamics explicitly confesses it is only good for equilibrium, where there is no tendency for change, where there are no causal relations between “the parts.” Looking at the “light cone” from physics confirms that there can be no causal relations in 3D. This should not be too controversial.
The problem is that, while not too controversial, it is terribly problematic! For causal relations we need 4D spacetime, but that leaves thermodynamics in the dust, and a huge gaping whole in science writ large! More than 100 years after Einstein, all of science is still plagued by classical notions of systems (and state), which have been thoroughly debunked!
“Stuff” is not the simple matter casual common sense makes it out to be. I stand in good stead when I (scream) say that I do not believe in matter per se. That there is no universe. Max Planck (with a c) was no chump! Thermodynamics says some useful stuff about the limits of what we can do, but what it imagines to get there is ultimately-illegitimate.
We need 4D spacetime for causal relations, but looking to 4D spacetime for systems is God’s equivalent of a parent asking their kid to go into the auto parts store to ask for “blinker fluid.” 4D is where the results are presented, but true causation comes before that. The genius step that is needed is to realize that among dimensions 0 and 1 of time there must be an other; there must be a co-creative dynamic! That means that there is no such thing as a singular 4D realm. Between (apriori cxmplxplura) you and (apriori cxmplxplura) me we each ordain our own. Not ~~it~~ happens, precisely, by a process of characteristic equi-valence, 2=x=2. Fundamental inter-personal uncertainty keeps us eternally individual. We ever harmonize, but never … reach an asymptote.
Anyway, I have this short paper/argument, based on the invention of the refrigerator, which proves that Determinism must fail to Freedom. I’d be honored for you (Enrique?) to consider precisely not ~~it~~. I also have a favorite philosopher I’d encourage you to consider, though his wikipedia page has recently been destroyed by popular consensus. (Not only that, google co-incidentally just turned off the search feature for his book! After I had been linking to it for years using the search feature to highlight where I was pointing: no results found) Evil does not repent; they go for worse and worse. Thank God I never had kids!
God is Love; Jesus is Lord; I~am: the way, the truth, and the life.
You can find me and my paper(s) here (for now at least):
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Herbert_Callen&oldid=3525075
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BitterHarvxst
https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:George_Holmes_Howison&oldid=3524275
God Bless You and yours!,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTjQq5rMlEY&t=Janelle+Moná+ –+Django+Jane&si= https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Planck&diff=prev&oldid=3525052
[B](https://archive.ph/dqUOf#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603031730/https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BitterHarvxst)[c](https://archive.ph/vMEMj#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603004755/https://groups.google.com/g/cxmplxplura#https://archive.ph/js4VF)[c](https://archive.ph/pocUw#https://web.archive.org/web/20240603004511/https://groups.google.com/g/cxmplxplura/c/wqW0UUFYs2M#https://archive.ph/YBQHN)
P.S. I’d be happy to read anything you might care to share about yourself.. (period-period) Hell, I’d be happy to read “Received.”
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