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To: GodGunsGuts

That was written by someone who understands what the word “entropy” means, but not how it works.


4 posted on 11/20/2009 6:49:01 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
That was written by someone who understands what the word “entropy” means, but not how it works.

This is a contradiction. The term entropy was coined by Rudolf Clausius in the context of thermodynamic theory. The popular conception of entropy as a measure of disorder derives from later work in statistical physics which provides a mechanical model as the ground of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The popular conception is a heuristic interpretation of the operation of this model, and is not logically primary to it.

55 posted on 11/20/2009 7:47:49 PM PST by dr_lew
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