Re: Non-conservative forces in a liquid dielectric

[pvalev <pvalev@BAS.BG>]

--- Ludwik Kowalski <kowalskil@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU> wrote:
> On Monday, Jun 2, 2003, Pentcho Valev wrote:
>
> > ....  but it seems to me that, for the
> > same height of the capacitor with
> >  respect to the ground, this force
> > is smaller in step 4 than in step 2. . . .
>
> I would not be tempted to perform an experiment
> on the basis of the "it seems to me," considering
> the extraordinary claim (continuous conversion of
> heat to work at a constant temperature). But I would
> be very interested if the wild guess was confirmed
> in real experiments performed by several people.

This "it seems to me" is the most unimportant thing in the whole
story, Ludwik. I thought you were sincerely interested. There is
no "wild guess". Just a suggestion that an experiment could confirm
or disprove the second law. Science has always been based on such
experiments and none of them deserve the name "wild guess".

Pentcho