There is a nice historical book
Helge Kragh, Entropic Creation: Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and
Cosmology, 2008
where the author discusses the heat death debates in 1850-1920. Peirce
is mentioned there and a quote from the book is below.
p. 187-188 In 1891 he [Peirce] described
Dear Evgenii and list
That fact is - as Schrödinger and Prigogine points out - that more and more
complicated self-organized systems develop feeding on the general growth of
entropy in the universe. These systems order more and more of their
surroundings in order to support and prolong their
Evgenii, List:
On Jun 28, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 27.06.2014 19:26 Jerry LR Chandler said the following:
The concept of entropy as a scientific concept is a rigorous
mathematic concept. It is an abstract concept, strictly limited to
the flow of HEAT (not matter) in a
Soren, List:
Does the concept of heat embody the concept of form? If so, how?
Entropy, as a component of the logic of thermodynamics, lacks form.
What gives entropy form?
Cheers
jerry
On Jun 28, 2014, at 6:54 AM, Søren Brier wrote:
Dear Evgenii and list
That fact is - as
Entropy is an index of the second law's predictions about energy,
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Jerry LR Chandler jerry_lr_chand...@me.com
wrote:
Soren, List:
Does the concept of heat embody the concept of form? If
