Re: Scientific American Article On "Market" Economists

On Apr 9, 12:28=A0pm, BretCah...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > Care to cite some area of science or mathematics that I don't
> > understand, you utter imbecile.
>
> Name the person who, after 2 centuries, first proved zero dead space
> was possible in a Stirling regenerator.
>
> Bret Cahill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine

Well, the Stirling engine has only been around since 1816, but don't
let that trouble you, Bret.   You could be talking about Dean Kamen, a
notable inventor of Stirling engine applications.  They've been
getting more efficient lately, and some people are arguing they should
be used more in aircraft.  This isn't a mathematical construct, so
"proving zero dead space is possible" would mean, designing a Stirling
engine with, effectively, no wasted space in the chamber that wasn't
used in gas conversion.  This is the real world, engineering
applications, so, perfection tends not to be attainable.

Again, with your simplistic way of looking at things, I'm not sure you
are capable of grasping these subtleties.  Real world applications and
theoretical abstractions are not the same things.  That's why we need
more controlled methods of interpreting experimental results.
Currenlty, there is no methodology for doing so, as I've been saying.