Russ Abbott wrote circa 07/20/2010 09:55 PM:
If all the particles were arrayed in a regular lattice, the description
could be smaller than the universe itself. I thought that was the point
of entropy.
Perhaps you're right. But that is also counter-intuitive to me. If
entropy really is a
Russ Abbott wrote circa 07/19/2010 05:06 PM:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:13 PM, glen e. p. ropella
g...@agent-based-modeling.com mailto:g...@agent-based-modeling.com
wrote:
I guess that's a joke. But to be overly literal minded, one random
distribution of elements is not the same as another
Please see below.
-- Russ
But my underlying point still stands: that when
characterizing a physical system (with concepts like entropy and
thermodynamics as a whole), one has to choose the layers or aspects they
want to pay attention to. If the characterization is intended to
capture the
Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky wrote circa 10-07-16 06:53 PM:
Another confused old guy, But there was something called Planck's Distance
that said that two atoms could not get any closer under normal circumstances
without enormous forces yet Bose condensates are literally superimposed
Under the information-based view of entropy a heat death universe would have
high entropy because it would take a large amount of information--a great
many bits--to capture it. One would have to say where each bit of material
is. Since each bit is more or less randomly located, there is no way to
Russ Abbott wrote circa 10-07-19 03:54 PM:
Under the information-based view of entropy a heat death universe
would have high entropy because it would take a large amount of
information--a great many bits--to capture it. One would have to say
where each bit of material is. Since each bit is
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:13 PM, glen e. p. ropella
g...@agent-based-modeling.com wrote:
A further interesting thing (perhaps only to my self-gratifying thoughts) is
that the maximal entropy heat death actually _can_ be described with very
little information. All it takes is a uniform RNG
Roger Critchlow wrote circa 10-07-13 09:07 PM:
The proposition of entropy causing action at a distance reminded me of a
notorious demonstration. A beaker of water and a beaker of sugar
dissolved in water are sealed together inside a bell jar. Over time the
level of liquid in the beaker of
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[Original Message]
From: glen e. p. ropella g...@agent-based-modeling.com
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com
Date: 7/16/2010 12:34:15 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] entropic force
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To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] entropic force (was Gravity as an emergent phenomenon)
Glen,
You and Grant are starting to make my poor=old rejected english major's
brain spin: I think I have finally seen the point of this whole discussion
about gravity. Let it be the case
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