Re:Battling Entropy
by coldtea on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:14AM
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>Why is this a measure of "disorder"? In my eyes, a perfectly uniformly distributed of zero temperature mass (or maybe absolute zero, not sure) of grey energy is the perfect order?
Order here means something specific.
A sand castle has more order, in that sense, than sand thrown around (e.g. the default state of sand in a beach) -- the sand in the castle is ordered in specific ways to represent something.
>I would call a perfectly uniformly smoothed out heat-death of the universe perfect order (i.e. the opposite of chaos).
Again, chaos in this sense means (to put it in layman terms) that nothing is put in some particular order. The "perfectly uniformly smoothed out heat-death of the universe" means nothing is explicitly ordered in some way -- any chunk of that universe that you take will have an equal distribution.
Here's another example:
A layered cake has an order (e.g. chocolate, cream, biscuit, marmelade, biscuit).
A layered cake mixed up on the blender on high, has no such order, it's all a chaos (even though it's smoother).
Order here means something specific.
A sand castle has more order, in that sense, than sand thrown around (e.g. the default state of sand in a beach) -- the sand in the castle is ordered in specific ways to represent something.
>I would call a perfectly uniformly smoothed out heat-death of the universe perfect order (i.e. the opposite of chaos).
Again, chaos in this sense means (to put it in layman terms) that nothing is put in some particular order. The "perfectly uniformly smoothed out heat-death of the universe" means nothing is explicitly ordered in some way -- any chunk of that universe that you take will have an equal distribution.
Here's another example:
A layered cake has an order (e.g. chocolate, cream, biscuit, marmelade, biscuit).
A layered cake mixed up on the blender on high, has no such order, it's all a chaos (even though it's smoother).