This picture is part of a series I call "entropies": of objects on their way to disappearance through age and decay. ❋ Andrew Pulver (2011)
He also showed that it is possible to determine entropies from spectroscopic data. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The entire multiverse is likely a pure state in the "superspace," and so the local entropies we observe, say as with the SA above, is due to the fact the other entropies of other cosmologies and their joint entropies are not available. ❋ Unknown (2010)
(1970, Chapters V, VI) analysed the problem of the change in Boltzmann entropies for these kinds of processes in detail. ❋ Maroney, Owen (2009)
We also discuss the qualitative gap between the entropies of black holes and ordinary matter. ❋ Sean (2008)
A good way to become acquainted with entropy is to look at some entropies. ❋ AYDIN (2007)
He toured a privately-funded rehab center in San Antonio, the center for the entropies. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This is due to the fact that the derived concepts of information rate and channel capacity depend on the difference of two entropies and this difference does not depend on the coordinate frame, each of the two terms being changed by the same amount. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In fact, absolute entropies are also called 3rd Law entropies because they start with the fact that entropy is zero at zero Kelvin. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There is indeed ample evidence that the entropies of many substances approach zero as the temperature approaches zero Kelvin. ❋ Unknown (2006)
As someone noted before, entropies of substances are now calculated to a high degree of certainty using statistical methods. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Or rather Shannon Entropy is a property of any discrete distribution and Shannon Information as a difference in entropies is a property of any pair of discrete distributions. steve ❋ Unknown (2005)
Shannon Information is defined as the difference between two entropies, i.e. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He wants to preserve what he can of her from Their several entropies, from Their softsoaping and Their money: maybe he thinks that if he can do it for her he can also do it for himself ... although that's awful close to nobility for Slothrop and The Penis He Thought Was His Own. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
Beyond simple steel erection, the Rocket was an entire system won, away from the feminine darkness, held against the entropies of lovable but scatterbrained Mother Nature: that was the first thing he was obliged by Weissmann to learn, his first step toward citizenship in the Zone. ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
Now one always measures in Nature the difference in entropies, never the entropy itself, and to this extent one cannot speak of the absolute entropy of a state, without a certain arbitrariness. ❋ Unknown (1967)
The entropies and other thermodynamic properties of many gases have also been determined from quantum statistics and molecular energy levels available from band spectra and other sources. ❋ Unknown (1964)
This work, which was concerned with the relative entropies of glycerine crystals and glass, had its origin in discussions of Professors Lewis and ❋ Unknown (1964)
Investigation of the effect of magnetic fields on the entropies of paramagnetic substances led to the invention of the adiabatic demagnetization method of producing temperatures considerably below 1° absolute. ❋ Unknown (1964)
The investigations on the entropies of the pure metals are also of great interest. ❋ Unknown (1964)
The best example is a [hot cup] of coffee. You walk into a coffee shop and check your pockets that yes, you do indeed have some [coin of the realm] that you spent time and energy to acquire somewhere else. This coin is therefore concentrated time and energy or effort. You then walk up to the counter and order ([key word] here) a hot cup of coffee. The [Barrista], who has an understanding of what you want, then reaches for a cup that someone spent time and effort making, and someone made an effort to clean. He then pours in this fluid that contains pure (hopefully) water that has been heated (we pay the power company for the heat) and poured over these [magic beans] that came from far away, with many people involved with ships and trucks burning fuel so that [these beans] could arrive here. This [cup of coffee] is indeed a highly ordered structure in the Universe. But today, instead of drinking it, we are going to perform an experiment. If we let [the cup] of coffee sit on the table long enough, say 30 minutes, what happens? It gets cold. The heat energy that we paid for is no longer concentrated in the cup. It still exists, but in the room not in the cup. This is a gain in entropy. If we let the cup of coffee sit there long enough, say 4 days, we notice that some of the water that we paid for has [evaporated]. It still exists as water vapor in the room (probably attacking the wallpaper) but not in the cup. This too, is a gain in entropy. By this time the Barrista will probably come along to kick us out, after all we've been here 4 days and haven't actually drank any coffee. If he does kick us out then he will have to clean the cup, spending time and energy and hot water, to bring the cup back up to a useful higher energy state, ready for the next customer. This would be an example of negative entropy. But he had to spend more energy elsewhere to accomplish this.
But let's say he doesn't kick us out. If we are still sitting here watching the cup in about 30 years when the building falls over, breaking the cup, then this too is a gain in entropy.
I am one of the few people on the planet to tell you that negative entropy = life (localized), in [thermodynamics] this would appear in an equation as -Δs (pronounced minus delta s). ❋ Coffe House Philosopher (2008)
The world's [entropy] will be certain if global [health care], poverty and crime are not [dealt with]. ❋ Artegall (2004)
❋ Chase (2003)
[Washing] machines are good at [making] entropy with your [clothes]. ❋ Ice Warrier (2013)
1.)i was sad when my [canary] died, but then i realized it was just [entropy] in progress. then i got a twelve piece from KFC.
2.)Random blobs of power, expressed as that which we all disregard. Ordered states of nature, on a scale that no one thinks about...
Hey, [Entropy]! [Turn it up] louder, educate the masses... ❋ 21st Century Digital Fuck (2004)
[Entropy] in gravity is assumed to have two [dimensions]; and thus exists in Tarski-space.
This contrasts with [entropy] in [quantum physics] which has four dimensions. ❋ Zanderfin (2020)
I met [this woman] and she’s Entropy...
You should feel lucky but do not [cross] her because she will [end] you. ❋ JustAClownToAnyBody (2020)
[Entropy] is [chaos] [misunderstood]. ❋ Syrell (2004)
ex. entropy has been found on [fume] hood, television set, [smart board], under [cabinets], etc. ❋ One_of_the_four_brits_artemis (2010)
eNTROPY [shirts] [make] a [statement]. ❋ Allucinations (2010)
