Gearing Up for Iran
Here's perhaps the most thought-provoking treatment of
the situation with Iran that I've read recently. It's
by Ray McGovern. McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27
years -- from the administration of John F. Kennedy to
that of George H. W. Bush. During the early 1980s, he
was one of the writers/editors of the President's Daily
Brief and briefed it one-on-one to the president's most
senior advisers. He also chaired National Intelligence
Estimates. In January 2003, he and four former
colleagues founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals
for Sanity.
Among other things, you will learn who "the crazies"
are. The article starts a little way down the page. Enjoy.
posted by thebaffler at 5:40 PM
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Down with Iran!!
The first indication of a connection between black holes and entropy, came in 1970, with my discovery that the area of the horizon of a black hole, always increased. There was an obvious analogy with the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases. But it was Jacob Bekenstein, who took the bold step, of suggesting the area actually was the physical entropy, and that it counted the internal states of the black hole. I was very much against this idea at first, because I felt it was a misuse of my horizon area result. If a black hole had a physical entropy, it would also have a physical temperature. If a black hole was in contact with thermal radiation, it would absorb some of the radiation, but it would not give off any radiation, since by definition, a black hole was a region from which nothing could escape. If the thermal radiation was at a lower temperature than the black hole, the loss of entropy down the black hole, would be greater than the increase of horizon area.
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