[SGVLUG] [OT] "Gibbs" and ??? (was: Help spread the word)

[Jeremy Leader]

It's not "Gibbs Vacuum" that you want, the key search string is "Gibbs Entropy".

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Jeremy Leader
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on 06/21/2007 03:07 PM Emerson, Tom (*IC)  wrote:
> As this topic further splinters and diverges, Dustin commented:
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:45:40AM -0700, Don Gibbs wrote:
>>>> Nature abhors a vacuum
>>> Is this really true?  Seems to me this is a quaint anachronism since
>>> only a tiny, tiny part of the universe is not a vacuum.
>>> Don Gibbs		| "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas
>> I forgot to ask if you knew how magnificently ironic your 
>> last name is in this context. :-)
> 
> Hmmm... I'll admit I had to bite on this -- since I wasn't really sure
> what "context" you were implying, I decided to try this google search:
> "Gibbs Vacuum"
> 
> Results:
>   1) Gibbs vacuum die-casting method
> 
>   2) Gibbs gets a new vacuum and ponders life, the universe, and
> everything [or, why you need a kirby in your network...]
> 
>   3) 2005 publications: H.M. Gibbs, "Vacuum Rabi splitting with a single
> quantum dot in a photonic crystal" [How did Hershel get involved again?]
> 
>   4) "...Gibbs vacuum ladling process..." [of slurry-based semi solids?]
> 
>   5) a paper entitled "use of series inductance in vacuum spark spectra"
> [sorry, this is physics, not computers...]
> 
>   6) "Available energy, parts I & II" [cue David Lawyer's discussion of
> "total energy of a system..."]
> 
>   7) Elasticity: Equations of motion: BASIC SEISMOLOGY 7 [a pay-per-view
> pdf...]
> 
>   8) Amber Archive Jul 2004: AMBER: About the free energy difference
> [ok, enough...]
>