BREAKING Climate Etc NEWS
Prominent Skeptic Moves Toward the Consensus
Rob Ellison announces …
“There is the other big news — in which the structure of the atmosphere is modelled by bouncing balls [i.e., a hard-sphere model] with a Boltzmann velocity distribution at a few degrees above absolute zero.
[see Bouncing Balls and the Boltzmann Distribution]
Which can entirely be described by –
There is an intuitively rigorously *proven* corollary — the FOMD corollary — that kinetic energy is constant at every height.”
Now yer grasping it, Rob Ellison!
Exercise Now imagine that the internal radioactivity of the earth has been turned-off, and the sun’s radiation has been turned off, and furthermore the temperature of the interstellar black-body radiation has adjusted upwards from 4K to 50K (to match the now-vanished solar constant).
Remark To a good approximation, the velocity and rotation of the earth can be left as-is (that is, Doppler and relativistic effects are neglected).
Then we have:
The FOMD Corollary The equilibrium temperature distribution of of the atmosphere is isothermal — that is, the Loschmidt gravito-thermal effect is utterly absent.
Needless to say, on this boring planet there is no wind and no weather … `cuz nothing of thermodynamical consequence ever happens at all.
It has been a pleasure to assist your thermodynamical understanding, Rob Ellison.
Kudos to astrophysicist Dominic Ford for a magnificent hard-sphere scattering simulation that concretely illustrates these key thermodynamical principles!