Posted: Jun 16, 2019 8:10 am
romansh wrote:It's got nothing to do with order or disorder.
Irreversibility has to do with order, and so, with probabilities. Entropy is defined in terms of probabilities, and that's why we have crank postings about entropy by socratus, who is probably some kind of determinist. But only probably.
Animavore wrote:
The early universe is like that early Guinness with low entropy and high energy.
And disequilibrium. Don't forget disequilibrium.
Blip wrote:Help! How does this square with the entropy of the universe increasing?
And also don't forget, the farther away we look, the farther back in time we see. Order is local. A lot of potential creativity has been lost along the way. The second law tells us that much more has been lost than has been gained by the work of gravitation.