Re: Notions of entropy

Posted by Merle Lefkoff-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Notions-of-entropy-tp7584006p7584014.html

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Russell Standish <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:08:18PM +0200, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> Nice to see the list is still alive :-) Entropy as
> information in disguise. Interesting. Isn't Entropy
> related to disorder, that is to say lack of information?
>
> -J.

Something like that. The exact relationship is

S + I = SM

where S is entropy, I is information and SM is the log of total number
of states the system could be in.

Information is sometimes said to be "negentropy", because

\Delta I = - \Delta S

when your system size remains constant over time.

Hi Nick,

You may be the only one interested in my TEDx talk.  Here's the link:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_BfrWTxA_U

Sorry to miss the entropy discussion this morning, since I'm trying to rearrange the global economic system.

Merle

Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
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