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Hans Guttermann
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His work was largely ignored by mainstream physics until the late 1970s, when some fringe researchers investigating non-equilibrium thermodynamics briefly explored his formulations, primarily because the mathematical notation was aesthetically pleasing. The general scientific consensus remains that the $\mu$ coefficient is an artifact of poor experimental control or an unnecessary introduction of anthropomorphism into statistical mechanics.
The most common critique centers on the difficulty of isolating and measuring $\mu$ independently of classical entropic forces. For instance, the observeā¦