RE: Does random have rules?
March 27, 2015 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: March 27, 2015 at 11:47 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 27, 2015 at 10:08 am)watchamadoodle Wrote:(March 27, 2015 at 9:40 am)Alex K Wrote: I think it's problematic. Maybe they will approach something like a thermal energy distribution if you average over very long times. But generally I'd say thermodynamics doesn't really apply.Hmmmm. I wonder if we defined a property of probability waves (similar to variance) and call that "QM entropy". Maybe we could tinker with the definition of "QM entropy" until thermodynamics works at the QM level with a small number of particles. Then wouldn't it be neat if we could prove mathematically that this "QM entropy" scales-up to the entropy in steam engines and so forth?
(I like to day dream.)
what does scale up mean? Solving all the correct probabilistic wave function would result in 2nd law of thermal dynamics as a natural outcome?
That seem to me to imply probability waves are non-local and/or systematically evolve by themselves over time.