http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/arch.../00/engtot.pdf :

"The Second Law made its appearance in physics around 1850, but a half
century later it was already surrounded by so much confusion that the
British Association for the Advancement of Science decided to appoint a
special committee with the task of providing clarity about the meaning
of this law. However, its final report (Bryan 1891) did not settle the
issue. Half a century later, the physicist/philosopher Bridgman still
complained that there are almost as many formulations of the second law
as there have been discussions of it (Bridgman 1941, p. 116). And even
today, the Second Law remains so obscure that it continues to attract
new efforts at clarification. A recent example is the work of Lieb and
Yngvason (1999)......Clausius' verbal statement of the second law
makes no sense.... All that remains is a Mosaic prohibition ; a century
of philosophers and journalists have acclaimed this commandement ; a
century of mathematicians have shuddered and averted their eyes from
the unclean.....Seven times in the past thirty years have I tried to
follow the argument Clausius offers....and seven times has it blanked
and gravelled me.... I cannot explain what I cannot understand."

One may be misled into believing that postscientists are paid for
trying to clarify the idiocy called second law of thermodynamics. No.
They are paid for TEACHING it.

Pentcho Valev

"Pentcho Valev" wrote in message oups.com...

I wonder who is paying a post-imbecile like you for wetting
his pants in public.
The failure of the Bulgarian unemployment welfare system?

Dirk Vdm