[TheForge] Re: TheForge digest, Vol 4 #579 - 8 msgs

Sat Aug 30 00:15:00 2003

I heard it was pixies that tied the knots in horses manes so they could hang
on and ride them in the night.
Randy Mundt
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From: "Thomas A. Troszak" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:51 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: TheForge digest, Vol 4 #579 - 8 msgs


> > From: "R.C.Mundt" <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] Tidying up welding leads
> > Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:31:55 -0600
> >
> > I haven't tried it but I  firmly believe if you strung out  your welding
> > cables, air hoses etc. neatly across the shop floor friday night, on
Monday
> > morning they would be tangled.  It must be gremlins or pixies or
somthing
> > like that.
>
> Dear Randy,
> I believe that you are correct about the outcome of you proposed
experiment,
> but I believe the cause is not gremlins, but a little known (and poorly
> understood) force of nature that I refer to as "disentropy".
>
> The ordinary laws of entropy state that all ordered systems naturally
> degrade to a lower energy state, or disorder, and this is easily seen all
> around us.
>
> Everyone knows that some effort or energy is required to place a complex
> knot into a simple straight piece of cable or hose, yet straight cables,
> hoses and ropes still become knotted on a regular basis, even without any
> known input of energy, as you have so astutely surmised.
>
> This energy (shown as eK or the "energy of knotting") must come from some
> hitherto unrealized source, hence my theory of "disentropy" wherein simple
> systems such as a perfectly straight welding cable become infinitely
complex
> all on their own as soon as you turn your back.
>
> Or... maybe it's just gremlins.
>
> Whaddya think?  :)
>
> Tom Troszak
>
>
>
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