On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 6:47 PM Jesse Mazer <[email protected]> wrote:
*> But when physicists say that a given system's dynamics are "reversible" > doesn't this generally involve an appeal to different initial boundary > conditions?* > If at the time of the Big Bang the universe was it in an extremely low entropy state then even if the laws of physics were 100% deterministic and even if X and Y always produced Z and nothing except X and Y could produce Z the second law of thermodynamics would still insist that things are irreversible because there are an astronomical number to an astronomical power more ways for something to have high entropy than low entropy. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 2le -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2PdgHraMf-NMt0%3Dhs-QXw4nqC6BMv%2BEWMWO8zbsDLCFg%40mail.gmail.com.
