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To: chuck_the_tv_out

I didn’t equate energy with entropy. I said that the 2nd law applies only to closed systems, which the earth is not. Closed means no imported energy or matter. Entropy was defined in thermodynamics well before concepts relating it to information were introduced.


37 posted on 02/14/2009 12:40:50 PM PST by hellbender
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To: hellbender
Closed means no imported energy or matter.

Actually "closed" means no exchange of matter. "Adiabatically isolated" means no exchage of matter or energy.

127 posted on 02/16/2009 5:14:53 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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