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People have a natural tendency to rebel against entropy to return order to their environments.
Information, entropy, and computation become metaphors for us at a much broader level.
When I try to explain the boundary layer, laminar flow, turbulent mixing, entropy, and autopsies to them, there eyes just glaze over.
One is the force of entropy and decay, the other is the force careful of creativity and evolution.
If you take the whole Solar System and treat it as a closed system, the entropy does increase, just as the laws of thermodynamics require.
The reason I adopt this tack is because entropy of the universe is said to be directional.
So, we can get useful work out of a system by reducing enthalpy or by increasing entropy.
In thermodynamics one divides any heat loss or gain by the temperature, and one obtains then a quantity that is called the change in entropy.
This study also bears on the nature and importance of changes in the configurational entropy on binding.
How is it that microphysics is time-reversible, yet macroscopic systems show increasing entropy?
However, the transmutational process remained a mystery to them, as humans struggled to explain it within terms of entropy and enthalpy.
There's a powerful sense of entropy, particularly when you see nature struggling to reclaim an artificial area as its turf.
Despite the large increase in enthalpy and entropy, the free energy difference between the closed and open conformations is relatively small.
Using the entropy framework, a prior, or expected value, and upper and lower bounds are needed for each estimated coefficient and error term.
The relationship between life as a continuous negentropic process and the zero entropy of the galaxy can be described with the following diagram.
And on a larger scale, the entire universe in sixty million years can expect only a winding down into inertness due to the law of entropy.
Actually, though, at this stage of the game the entropy of a system was not actually defined.
The expansion of helium into a vacuum corresponds to a significant change in entropy but to a trivial change in energy.
In a reversible process, the total change in entropy in the system and the total change in entropy in the surroundings is zero.
He can sort the results geographically by office to catch patches of entropy quickly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A somewhat different procedure, in terms of entropy as fundamental, has been adopted and developed by Planck.
This constitutes the automatic perfecting process or progression of the idioplasm, and entropy of organic matter.
The summation is defined as the increase in entropy between the initial and the final states.
It is an entropy of history itself, slowly decaying into chaotic repetition.
Fully illustrated and containing eighteen tables, including an entropy chart.
Anyone who prophesies doom has a hundred per cent chance of ultimately being right, if only because of entropy.
The entropy shift must be just right or we'll find ourselves with Hitle and his gang.
When divided by that temperature the quotient gives the increase of entropy.
All organic life and movement must cease when this maximum of entropy has been reached.
The Canadian mayflower brings forth thoughts about photosynthesis and nature's struggle with the law of entropy.
This disordered form demonstrated high entropy at low temperatures, with extrapolations showing that residual entropy would be retained at absolute zero.
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