RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def..
December 24, 2017 at 2:29 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2017 at 3:05 am by surreptitious57.)
Entropy is not technically disorder but the equilibrium of lower energy states
Saying it is disorder is oversimplifying it and providing an inaccurate definition
Also the Second Law Of Thermodynamics does not say that entropy will increase over time. But instead it says that it will not decrease over time
A subtle and important distinction. This is generally rather than absolutely true due to the fact that there might be different levels of entropy with
in the same system if it is sufficiently large. Such as for example the Universe which is the only known example of an isolated system that there is
There is no such thing as a singularity. They are forbidden by quantum mechanics. The hypothetical point of infinite density that
is supposedly compressed into a space of zero volume can never be attained as it is asymptotic. Both Hawking and Penrose who
originally formulated the singularity theorem in 1970 eventually discarded it and it has not been a credible hypothesis since then
Saying it is disorder is oversimplifying it and providing an inaccurate definition
Also the Second Law Of Thermodynamics does not say that entropy will increase over time. But instead it says that it will not decrease over time
A subtle and important distinction. This is generally rather than absolutely true due to the fact that there might be different levels of entropy with
in the same system if it is sufficiently large. Such as for example the Universe which is the only known example of an isolated system that there is
There is no such thing as a singularity. They are forbidden by quantum mechanics. The hypothetical point of infinite density that
is supposedly compressed into a space of zero volume can never be attained as it is asymptotic. Both Hawking and Penrose who
originally formulated the singularity theorem in 1970 eventually discarded it and it has not been a credible hypothesis since then
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