On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 07:51:13PM +0100, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > Then the thermodynamic entropy is subjective. Try to convince in > this engineers who develop engines, or chemists who compute > equilibria, and see what happens.
I take Denbigh & Denbigh's position that entropy is not subjective, but rather fixed by convention. Conventions can be entirely objective. This should assuage those engineers you speak of. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
