Originally posted by Allcanadian
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But plants need to take in water and they need sun light to grow. Well most anyways. They have an input and you guys think it is this invisible energy or magical process. They are real and they are consumed. The water taken in from the plant is not available anymore to the envirenment it was removed from, the ground. It is used by the plant and released into the atmosphere. A seperate environment in the gross sense. Everything has these costs weather you want to know them or not. Also the reason plants survive is because they are in a system. Take that system away or even change the way the system acts, even add things like pollutants and the plants die off. Not having the complete picture is only part of your problem. The other is just plain ignorance.
You want to talk about subjects but don't have a complete understanding of those subject to talk about it. So you do what Aaron does. He never answers the important questions and only picks apart the ones that have little to do with the real points.
Give all the information in a problem and If I can not answer it I will be the first person to admit that. But time and time again when asked to supply the full information needed to answer his original question he uses a circular logic to dodge the attempt to find out the additional values needed to perform the calculations. Or in fact adds more to the original question by adding further parameters like a hole suddenly appears without any information about what created the hole or the energy that it took to create the hole.
I will say this again. Once your system disconnects from the ball the ball is in the environment. You are just an observer at that point and any input suddenly becomes a loss to your system. The one joule it took to put the ball where it is, is wasted once you let the ball go Period. Since as you said the ball has not changed in any way physically or energetically. Once it starts to fall the ball is then in the environmental system and not your system (the input of 1 joule on the ball to raise it x amount of heigth). Unless you keep connected to the ball then you have NO way to quantify anything that happens after you let the ball go. But you do not have that connection or system if you will to quantify anything but a loss.
***** Now here is the challenge to you! Either put up or shut up! Give all the information one would need for your problem or admit that just setting something in motion without staying connected means the only changes are to the environment and not your system. Oh unless you think you are the environment. What energy are you gaining and where is that energy going?******************************************** ***********
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