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Re:Entropy as Disorder: History of a Misconception by Florin_Andrei on Saturday September 21, 2019 @04:23PM (#21037710)
I dunno. I always thought "entropy = disorder" was a big simplification, almost in the realm of lies to children. Entropy is what it is; the pattern detection algorithms in our heads are not always very good at judging global properties such as order.

I do have a degree in Physics, so perhaps that's the source of this belief I've held - probably from countless impromptu discussions with fellow physics geeks. You wanna know the entropy of this system? Calculate it, don't eyeball it.

Re:Entropy as Disorder: History of a Misconception by novaRom on Saturday September 21, 2019 @05:24PM (#21037999)
How to define disorder? I always struggle to understand that. Less compressible state?
Re:Entropy as Disorder: History of a Misconception by dr_dshiv on Sunday September 22, 2019 @01:37AM (#21039858)
More potential for free energy flow across a gradient. That's what I still associate with entropy