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2006-08-27 22:51:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Physics

you can go check it in www.steorn.com

2006-08-27 23:21:05 · update #1

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The First Law of Thermodynamics (for that is what the law of conservation of energy is) rests for its validity upon the fact that no-one, ever, has been able to disprove it. It is unlikely that either you or I would succeed where so many have failed!

There is only one justification for deeming it to be incomplete: it should be known as the conservation of mass/energy but, in the absence of an atomic reaction, the familiar form of the law is near enough!

2006-08-28 01:40:24 · answer #1 · answered by clausiusminkowski 3 · 0 0

Incorrectness? Can you add more details? What makes you think it's incorrect?

That a very bold assumption in light of we currently know about physics. It's a fundamental principle of nature and I've never seen any valid reason to challenge it yet.

If anyone proved it was an invalid law, it would shake the foundations of modern physics to its roots.

China_Jon is right. If it wasn't valid, we could create perpetual motion machines and such things as batteries that could recharge themselves forever by using the energy they produce to do it while operating a battery powered appliance, like a flashlight, at the same time. We could create free energy.

Mother Nature never does anything totally for free. She's nobody's fool.

That www.steorn.com site is bogus pseudoscience. In essence they are talking about a perpetual motion machine in a disguised form.

I suggest they not be taken too seriously - until they prove their impossible claim. Don't hold your breath. And above all, don't invest in it!

 

2006-08-28 06:06:50 · answer #2 · answered by Jay T 3 · 0 0

"Incorrectness" may be a misnomer, but, energy conservation could, most likely, have a negative effect.

Back in the early 70s, California passed laws to save water.
They required that every home place a "brick or two", in the toilet tanks so that the water level was reduced, therefore using less water to flush. They even initiated home inspections to assure it was followed.

Water consumption was reduced. It worked.

The water rates were increased!

Consider reducing gas consumption by 30-50%.

What would happen to taxes and prices?
Consider reducing cigarette consumption by an additional 50%. Where will the lost taxes be recovered?

The old law, "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". Hmmmmmm?

2006-08-28 06:12:32 · answer #3 · answered by ed 7 · 0 0

I have not heard of a mistake in this law. As soon as you can make it wrong, you can get a Nobel Prize in Physics, and we can have unlimited energy.
;-D Hurry up!

2006-08-28 05:55:12 · answer #4 · answered by China Jon 6 · 0 0

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