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- Subject: Re: 2nd law not taught in the ex - Eastern block?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.161418.27451@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:14:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.023245.11738@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>,<1992Aug26.114704.6663@cs.joensuu.fi>
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- In article <1992Aug26.114704.6663@cs.joensuu.fi>, asiivo@cs.joensuu.fi
- (Antti Siivonen) writes:
- >ecmtwhk@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Thomas Koenig) writes:
- >
- >>I recently heard from a friend that some universities in what used to be
- >>the Eastern block did not teach the second law of thermodynamics to
- >>their students, because that was seen to collide with Marxist philosophy
- >>that the world was going to perfection, and was therefore politically
- >>incorrect to the highest degree. He also mentioned that Goedel's theorem
- >>was taught to be fallacious, for the same reason. Is this true?
- >
- > I suppose it isn't true. I'm myself from Leningrad. I don't have
- > noticed it.
- >--
- >
- > Andreas - Siperian Sirri Siberian Stint
- >
- > No ITU, love, evolution. Tuusniemi ! Siis imein suut !
-
- Although, when I was in college I had heard a story (with attributed quotes,
- which makes it more credible) about the communist party originally rejecting
- the concept that there was no ether (a hypothesized medium through which
- light waves were supposed to propagate) and therefore no absolute (true
- rest) frame of reference for motion, because the idea that there are no
- absolutes is contrary to the principal of dialectic materialism.
- Time frame on this story is a good 80 years ago, but tall tales might
- have stretched it to the story Koenig told.
-
-
- RB
-