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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

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

...terest in Gibbs may stem from Gibbs's work in thermodynamics, particularly entropy, a theme that pervades Pynchon's work.

'''entropy'''<br> ...r available for doing work in that system. See [http://www.entropylaw.com/ Entropy & Laws of Thermodynamics.]

This is the connection between entropy in thermodynamics and entropy in information theory, embodied in Maxwell's Demon [http://en.wikipedia.org

Time is why there is entropy, that key Pynchonian term. Pynchon has created a brilliant metaphor that us Time's arrow/ entropy motif.

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

...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''