Ask Slashdot: Gravitation: A Challenge to the Second Law

azouhr writes: The cosmologist, Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), once said, 'Don't worry if your theory doesn't agree with the observations, because they are probably wrong. But if your theory disagrees with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it is in bad trouble.'

So, I find myself in bad trouble, since I believe to have found wrong assumptions to the second law of thermodynamics, and built a counterexample to that law. Unfortunately, it seems, that there is no expert available that can explain the basics of the second law with respect to that counterexample, at least I could not find any in several years.

The flaw can be found when reading into the Theory by Ludwig Boltzmann, when he states, that molecules fly in straight lines, except when colliding with other molecules or some wall. However this completely ignores the effect of Gravitation. I believe, that I can proove, that

1. An adiabatic temperature distribution will built up with gases in a gravitational field, even without external heat source
2. That temperature distribution can be used to gain mechanical energy.

Creating an energy distribution from a single temperature requires energy flow from cold to warm, which is forbidden in the second law.

I have written down the details in an article (too long for here, but still just a few pages) that can be found at: https://azouhr.github.io/2ndla...

Feel free to tear down that article, but please give a good reason.