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Getzler Lab at KenyonCollege<p>Behold the Little Free Energy Library, erected today, 11 February, in honor of the birthday of Josiah Willard Gibbs and stocked, initially, with his works. Mounted at Kenyon College in what I think is one of the most delightfully foolish things I've ever done. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/whimsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whimsy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/LittleFreeLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LittleFreeLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/FreeEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/KenyonCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KenyonCollege</span></a> </p><p>email sent to the college below (1/7)</p>
Daniel Dvorkin<p>A conversation.</p><p>“When experts disagree, usually the best thing to do is listen to what the majority of experts say. There’s no <em>guarantee</em> that they’re right, but they’re more likely right than wrong. And if the majority view is overturned, it’s almost guaranteed that this will be done by other experts in the field presenting evidence for the minority view, not by random kibitzers.”</p><p>“For the history buffs in here, while most scientific knowledge is advanced incrementally, the true breakthroughs are usually ridiculed by the reigning experts. That is why appeals to authority are the worst kind of logical fallacy for a scientist.”</p><p>“That’s the pop-history version of scientific progress. The actual <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> of <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> is very different. Kind of like the difference between ‘history buffs’ and historians.”</p><p>===</p><p>Yes, there are examples—a few—of genuine breakthroughs that were ridiculed by the scientific establishment of the day. I bet you know what they are, because everyone does. They laughed at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Semmelweis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semmelweis</span></a>, they laughed at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Wegner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wegner</span></a>, they laughed at Luis and Walter <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Alvarez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alvarez</span></a>, they laughed at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Marshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Marshall</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Warren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Warren</span></a>. These things happened.</p><p>But they did <em>not</em> laugh at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Galileo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Galileo</span></a>: indeed, they took his work with deadly seriousness. (And there really wasn’t any such thing as a “scientific establishment” at the time.) They did not laugh at <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Newton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Newton</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Watt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watt</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Darwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Darwin</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Pasteur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pasteur</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Einstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Einstein</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Curie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Curie</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Heisenberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heisenberg</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Fisher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fisher</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Watson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watson</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Crick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crick</span></a> and poor unacknowledged <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Franklin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Franklin</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Tharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tharp</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Heezen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heezen</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Ostrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ostrom</span></a> and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Bakker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bakker</span></a>, or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Hansen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hansen</span></a>, or the <em>vast majority</em> of scientists whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe.</p><p>At least if by “they” you mean scientists working in relevant fields, who understood the questions at hand … not, in most cases, scientists from other fields, or those with no scientific experience at all. Nor the religious and political ideologues who muddy the waters by creating fake “controversies” to cast doubt on results they know are true, but cannot accept.</p><p>In some cases they <em>disagreed</em>, quite vociferously. There were debates that descended into shouting matches, professional disagreements turned into personal feuds, once-eminent researchers become sad cranks, ruined careers and shortened lives. Yes. These things happened too, and that’s a tragedy.</p><p>But most of the time, most researchers in the same fields as the revolutionaries said, “Oh, that makes sense!” Problems that had seemed insoluble suddenly became simple, or at least it was possible to see how there <em>might</em> be an elegant solution. Major discoveries spawned a host of medium-sized ones, each of which in turn spawned endless minor ones—and endless minor papers, academic bread and butter for when you can’t get steak and lobster. Everyone wins.</p><p>Those ideologues I mentioned above? They really, really want you to believe the narrative of ridicule. You might want to consider why.</p>
World Concert Hall<p>Right now, Newby and Middleton perform <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Schubert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schubert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Medtner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medtner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Chabrier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chabrier</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> and more in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> <a href="https://buff.ly/3VSvWts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3VSvWts</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wch</span></a></p>
World Concert Hall<p>In 20 minutes, Newby and Middleton perform <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Schubert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schubert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Medtner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medtner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Chabrier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chabrier</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> and more in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> <a href="https://buff.ly/3VSvWts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3VSvWts</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wch</span></a></p>
World Concert Hall<p>Today, Newby and Middleton perform <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Schubert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schubert</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Medtner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medtner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Chabrier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chabrier</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> and more in <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> <a href="https://buff.ly/3VSvWts" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">buff.ly/3VSvWts</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wch</span></a></p>
tomsharp<p>In 1876, Josiah Willard Gibbs defined the chemical potential of thermodynamic systems. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Thermodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thermodynamics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> (<a href="https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1876d.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sharpgiving.com/thebookofscien</span><span class="invisible">ce/items/p1876d.html</span></a>)</p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>"The authors introduce the two main theoretical approaches in SM, Boltzmannian SM and Gibbsian SM, and discuss how they conceptualise equilibrium and explain the approach to it. In doing so, the authors examine how probabilities are introduced into the theories, how they deal with irreversibility, how they understand the relation between the micro and the macro level, and how the two approaches relate to each other."</p><p>Frigg R, Werndl C. Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2024. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009022798" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1017/9781009022798</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OpenAcess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAcess</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OA</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/PhilosophyOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Probability</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Boltzmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boltzmann</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academic</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/philosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>philosophy</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/philosophyofscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>philosophyofscience</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/physics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>physics</span></a></span></p>
World Concert Hall<p>Right now, chamber music from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Belfast</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Beethoven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beethoven</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Haydn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haydn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Field" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Field</span></a>, Vaughan Williams <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Boyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boyle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Maconchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maconchy</span></a> <a href="https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/chamber_music_from_belfast_beethoven_haydn_field_vaughan_williams_boyle_gibbs_and_maconchy/74680/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu</span><span class="invisible">le/chamber_music_from_belfast_beethoven_haydn_field_vaughan_williams_boyle_gibbs_and_maconchy/74680/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wch</span></a></p>
World Concert Hall<p>In 20 minutes, chamber music from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Belfast</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Beethoven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beethoven</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Haydn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haydn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Field" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Field</span></a>, Vaughan Williams <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Boyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boyle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Maconchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maconchy</span></a> <a href="https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/chamber_music_from_belfast_beethoven_haydn_field_vaughan_williams_boyle_gibbs_and_maconchy/74680/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu</span><span class="invisible">le/chamber_music_from_belfast_beethoven_haydn_field_vaughan_williams_boyle_gibbs_and_maconchy/74680/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wch</span></a></p>
World Concert Hall<p>Today, chamber music from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Belfast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Belfast</span></a>: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Beethoven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Beethoven</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Haydn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Haydn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Field" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Field</span></a>, Vaughan Williams <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Boyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boyle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gibbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gibbs</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Maconchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maconchy</span></a> <a href="https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/chamber_music_from_belfast_beethoven_haydn_field_vaughan_williams_boyle_gibbs_and_maconchy/74680/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldconcerthall.com/en/schedu</span><span class="invisible">le/chamber_music_from_belfast_beethoven_haydn_field_vaughan_williams_boyle_gibbs_and_maconchy/74680/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wch</span></a></p>