Re: [asa] Chinese Laundry problem

Burgy:
How do you keep the hdrogen atoms constituting the irons stationary
under the impacts?
Don

burgytwo@juno.com wrote:

>A very intriguing problem.
>
>To solve it I created a new universe, containing only the reflective
>ellipsoid. The walls are a force field and not material.
>
>In the ellipsoid I placed two irons at the foci. each iron was one
>hydrogen atom, firmly fixed within the ellipsoid.
>
>I then introduced one other hydrogen molecule, moving in a random
>path at 1000 mph (this equates, as I recall, to about a temperature
>of 70 degrees F).
>
>The moving atom bounced around, hitting an iron frequently; never
>changing its speed (although, of course, changing its velocity). At
>the end of one billion years it was still moving at 1000 mph.
>
>I conclude from this (I may be wrong) that in spite of good
>intentions, thermal equilibrium will prevail in the original problem.
>
>OK George, what have I missed?
>
>Burgy
>
>
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