From owner-frc@troll.no Sun Aug 29 14:36:23 1999 Received: from root@svis01 [131.155.70.161] by svfile1.win.tue.nl (8.8.7) for id OAA13697 (ESMTP). Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:36:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lupinella.troll.no [195.0.254.19] by svis01.win.tue.nl (8.8.7) for id OAA28646 (ESMTP). Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:36:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by troll.no id ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:36:04 +0200 Sender: owner-frc@troll.no Precedence: list X-Loop: frc Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:35:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Chatham To: frc@troll.no Subject: Summary of Round 120 so far Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: RO Round 120 started at Rule Date 1999-08-21 14:00:00. Doug Chatham is Judge. Doug Chatham and Aron Wall are co-Wizards. The Theme is FRC Thermodynamics. Four rules have been submitted: three VALID and one INVALID. Player Eligible Until Style Points ______ ______________ ____________ Nicholson Neisler 8/30 22:28:14 1.0 Garth Rose 8/30 23:12:49 1.0 Ed Murphy 9/1 09:00:10 1.0 No other persons are eligible. No other persons have Style Points. Rules submitted: On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Nicholson Neisler wrote: >120:1 > >Each rule in this round has an associated amout of FRC HEAT. For >example, this rule currently has heat of 120 units. > >Following the first law of FRC thermodynamics, any change in the FRC >HEAT of a rule is equal to the FRC HEAT absorbed from outside of the >rule, minus the work done on another rule. > >-- >Rule Date: 1999-08-23 22:28:14 GMT > 120:1 is VALID with Style +1. _______________________________________________________ On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Garth Rose wrote: >----Rule begins--- >FRC Round 120 is a closed thermodynamic system: The total energy of all >rules must always sum to 120 units. FRC HEAT and work are the only forms of >energy possible. INVALID rules always have zero units of energy, and can not >alter the energy levels of any other rules. > >Every rule is automatically in thermodynamic contact with the previous VALID >rule (if any), with any rule that refers to it by number, and with any rule >that is in thermodynamic contact with it. There may be other ways of forming >or breaking thermodynamic contact between two rules. > >In accord with the Zeroth Law of FRC Thermodynamics, FRC HEAT exchange occurs >only between rules in thermodynamic contact, and always from the rule with >greater FRC HEAT to the one with lower. (This implies that the rule with >greater FRC HEAT does work on the one with lower, this work being dissipated >and absorbed as FRC HEAT.) >----Rule ends--- > >Note that the contortion of the last sentence was necessary to get around the >wording of 120:1. You should have allowed for direct HEAT *emission*, Nick, >not just absorption. Though I suppose one could argue that emission is just >absorption of a negative amount of energy... > >Garth > >-- >Rule Date: 1999-08-23 23:12:49 GMT > 120:2 is VALID with +1.0 Style ______________________________________________________ On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Ed Murphy wrote: >----- begin rule ----- > >Following the precedent of 120:1, each rule must state a previously >unmentioned Law of Thermodynamics. > >The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Whenever a rule absorbs HEAT from two or >more rules simultaneously, it absorbs HEAT at the same rate from each other >rule, and stops if its HEAT equals that of one of the other rules. > >When a HEAT sink becomes valid, it begins absorbing HEAT from all rules with >which it is in thermodynamic contact, at a rate of one unit of HEAT per >second, for as long as possible. > >This rule is a HEAT sink. > >Any rule stating a Law of Thermodynamics that is wholly derivable from >previously mentioned Laws is a HEAT sink. > >------ end rule ------ 120:3 is VALID. +1.0 Style Oh my aching head.... ;-) > > >-- >Ed Murphy >http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/meridian/309/ >"I see," said Arthur, who didn't. > >-- >Rule Date: 1999-08-25 09:00:10 GMT > __________________________________________________________ On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Aron Wall wrote: >>>>>>> >Third Law of Thermodynamics: > Existing Rules must have a temperature strictly greater than >Absolute Zero (0 degrees FRC). Neither invalid rules nor not-yet-judged >rules "exist" for these purposes. > > Also, as long as we are discussing Quantum FRC Bogodynamics, I might >as well reveal that: > > Delta E Delta t >= 1 > > where Delta is uncertainty, E is energy in FRC Units, and t is time >in seconds.* >>>>>>> > >Aron Wall > >* This sets Plank's constant to 2 pi. > >-- >Rule Date: 1999-08-26 01:00:47 GMT > I agree with Garth. Rule 120:1 implies that the uncertainty in the measurement of the FRC HEAT of Rule 120:1 was zero at the time it was posted. This rule is INVALID. 0 Style Points are awarded. __________ Doug Chatham dchatham@utk.edu http://web.utk.edu/~chatham If you'd like a quote, see http://math.furman.edu/cgi-bin/randquote.pl -- Rule Date: 1999-08-29 12:36:04 GMT