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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Entropy was not a kind of energy or an amount of energy; it was, as Clausius had said, the unavailability of energy.
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As the universe becomes larger, its maximum entropy increases faster than the loss of free energy by the second law,
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Nature’s laws do not change very much. So long as the store of human knowledge continues to expand, as it has since Gutenberg’s printing press, we will slowly come to a better understanding of nature’s signals, if never all its secrets. And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about bec
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- “… a clock is anything that undergoes irreversible changes: changes in which energy spreads out among more particles or into a broader area.”
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chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.