Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Flat earth Guru, Nathan Thompson (of harass the NASA guy in a coffee shop fame) has a melt down on the Non Sequitur show. Here are the highlights.
It has been pointed out that where the clip says the the 2nd law of thermodynamics relates to a "closed system" is incorrect. It should say an "isolated system". According to some definitions a closed system can exchange energy while an isolated system can not. And the 2nd law applies to isolated systems defined as above.
The wikipedia page on "closed system" says : "This scheme of definition of terms is not uniformly used, though it is convenient for some purposes. In particular, some writers use 'closed system' where 'isolated system' is used here." The clip I used on entropy was using a definition of 'closed system' that means a system closed to both matter and energy.
Bottom line - no matter the definition of close system - the earth is neither closed nor isolated - so the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not apply to it.
Original Video: youtube.com/watch?v=bjfrHZlyKZ8
Flat earth Guru, Nathan Thompson (of harass the NASA guy in a coffee shop fame) has a melt down on the Non Sequitur show. Here are the highlights.
It has been pointed out that where the clip says the the 2nd law of thermodynamics relates to a "closed system" is incorrect. It should say an "isolated system". According to some definitions a closed system can exchange energy while an isolated system can not. And the 2nd law applies to isolated systems defined as above.
The wikipedia page on "closed system" says : "This scheme of definition of terms is not uniformly used, though it is convenient for some purposes. In particular, some writers use 'closed system' where 'isolated system' is used here." The clip I used on entropy was using a definition of 'closed system' that means a system closed to both matter and energy.
Bottom line - no matter the definition of close system - the earth is neither closed nor isolated - so the 2nd law of thermodynamics does not apply to it.
Original Video: youtube.com/watch?v=bjfrHZlyKZ8
