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Interesting. So when you say that entropy is an arbitrary concept, is it simply determined by the likeliest macrostates? So in the case of planets vs dust clouds, would we say that planets have higher entropy than dust clouds because entropy is defined as increasing with the likeliest states and we know that planets are likelier? To put it another way, could someone us their understanding of entropy to make predictio…
>To ask the same question in yet another way, Is Entropy like C to the majority? If it appears to decrease, it's our understanding of probabilities for the system that need to be reworked? The popular intuition of entropy is often wrong and incomplete. The most general definition is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) You will see it is inline with what I'm talking about. Entropy is an ar…
Re: Demystifying the second law of thermodynamics
#41Not sure why you got flagged - I'll have a look at the link you suggested, maybe it'll help.