On Jan 27, 2:33 pm, Evgenii Rudnyi <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26.01.2012 19:01 John Clark said the following: > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Craig > > Weinberg<[email protected]>wrote: > > ... > > >>> If I have red legos and white legos, and I build two opposite > >>> monochrome > >> houses and one of mixed blocks, how in the world does that effect > >> the entropy of the plastic bricks in any way? > > > It does not effect the entropy of the plastic bricks but it does > > change the entropy of the structures built with those plastic bricks. > > This change in the entropy is below of experimental noise. Just estimate > what difference it makes and the difference in what digit in the total > entropy you will have. Hence the talk about the thermodynamic entropy as > the information source in this case is just meaningless, as you cannot > experimentally measure what you are talking about. > > Evgenii
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