Irenaeus, Siteadmin, Check users, oversight, Administrators
351,726
edits
Changes
Second Law of Thermodynamics (view source)
Revision as of 07:53, June 10, 2012
, 07:53, June 10, 2012→Entropy and disorder for dummies
This state is called maximum entropy and is said to be in perfect disorder (although intuitively its uniformity would seem to be a state of perfect order) because it has become impossible to determine what happened in the past. ''i.e.'' There are an infinite number of ways (histories of the universe) maximum entropy could have been reached.
This state is called maximum entropy and is said to be in perfect disorder (although intuitively its uniformity would seem to be a state of perfect order) because it has become impossible to determine what happened in the past. ''i.e.'' There are an infinite number of ways (histories of the universe) maximum entropy could have been reached.
==Entropy and disorder for dummies==
==Entropy and disorder ==
In this context "increasing disorder" means "that which happens if you let nature take its course".
In this context "increasing disorder" means "that which happens if you let nature take its course".