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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
Zack Savitskyquantamagazine.org
tends to increase over time. Entropy is often roughly defined as the disorderliness or disorganization of a system—a
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Entropy is the supreme law of the Universe, which illustrates that systems tend toward disorder, chaos, and destruction on all planes of existence unless energy is put into the system. In other words, nothing is permanent.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
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The growth of entropy is nothing other than the ubiquitous and familiar natural increase of disorder.
Carlo Rovelli • The Order of Time
higher entropy means that more information can be stored in a system’s microscopic details without changing its overall macroscopic properties.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
higher entropy means that more information can be stored in a system’s microscopic details without changing its overall macroscopic properties.
Thomas Hertog • On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory
entropy is related to the number of microstates in each macrostate.[*]
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Since Boltzmann ’s entropy measure is not about the dispersion of heat per se, but the evolving spatial configuration of a many-particle system’s components, we may call it statistical entropy, or configurational entropy.