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...to even out in a physical system which is isolated from the outside world. Entropy is a measure of how far along this evening-out process has progressed; [htt
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> appears on these pages of GR and V., "entropy" was a major theme in
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The law of entropy... "The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, a
...set by the information the Demon gained about what molecules were where... Entropy is a figure of speech, then, a metaphor. It connects the world of thermodyn
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...All of them deserve more. I will provide what I can, rooting through the entropy generator laughably known as my memory and leaning heavily upon my trusty l
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...terest in Gibbs may stem from Gibbs's work in thermodynamics, particularly entropy, a theme that pervades Pynchon's work.
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'''entropy'''<br>
...r available for doing work in that system. See [http://www.entropylaw.com/ Entropy & Laws of Thermodynamics.]
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This is the connection between entropy in thermodynamics and entropy in information theory, embodied in Maxwell's Demon [http://en.wikipedia.org
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Time is why there is entropy, that key Pynchonian term. Pynchon has created a brilliant metaphor that us
Time's arrow/ entropy motif.
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Prior to Boltzmann, entropy was defined only by means of heat and temperature. Boltzmann gave the first
This is Boltzmann's statistical definition of entropy and its discovery marked a watershed moment in physics. It is engraved on h
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...eterition, paranoia, racism, colonialism, conspiracy, synchronicity, and [[entropy]], the novel has spawned a wealth of commentary and critical material, incl
...published work, "Entropy" (1960), introduced [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/entropy the concept] which was to become synonymous with Pynchon's name (though Pyn
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...st real understanding of what ''entropy'' means in statistical terms: the entropy of a macrostate is, up to a multiplicative factor, the logarithm of its num
Boltzmann also studied the way in which the entropy of a system rises with time. His mathematical deduction known as the ''H''
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 | File:Boltzmann.jpg Boltzmann's grave has his statistical formula for entropy enscribed. The picture is by K.Ghosh, University of California at Santa Ba
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