And what about vegan?! Such a lack of empathy! 😋
I must confess i'm really thinking quit meat... Have more and more moral issues eating flesh.
It is a cycling disorder ---> order. What comes last, order or disorder? If matter were to be instrinsically disordered, disorder should prevail in the end, but there is no end.
Chemistry, sub-sub-atomic particles seek order: they do not make random structures, and if they have a probability to do so, that probability must be insignificant with their preference for order.
I see "enthropy" as pseudo-science. For an overly simplified ideal gas it might apply but not for particles with a chemical preference for specific molecules and radicals.
Chemistry, sub-sub-atomic particles seek order: they do not make random structures, and if they have a probability to do so, that probability must be insignificant with their preference for order.
I see "enthropy" as pseudo-science. For an overly simplified ideal gas it might apply but not for particles with a chemical preference for specific molecules and radicals.
Just called up my buddy Stuttering Tom and asked him if the meaning of life was the letter T and he said,
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT T ?
So yah 42!
edit; no disrespect to those with speach impediments……….Stuttering Tom is real and he has no problem with the nickname. 😎
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT T ?
So yah 42!
edit; no disrespect to those with speach impediments……….Stuttering Tom is real and he has no problem with the nickname. 😎
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I do not have the envy to eat vegans, best food cames from predators... ask analog_sa 's cat ! I am to eventually quiting myth !
Hey that's the beginning of the Star Wars song 🙂 : Ta ta ta, ta ta ta, ta ta ta... TATA TA tata ta tataaaa !
Entropy is a demonstrable property in physics. However, it has been conflated to death into all kinds of woo and general BS.
Entropy partly explains chemistry and particle behavior. An exothermic reaction is the best example.
We have plenty of meat in frozen storage. These days I simply often forget to get it out to thaw, in time for prep of the next meal. I have no idea why I do this, but for the last several years, it's been veg seasoned with occasional meat, versus meat seasoned with a little bit of token veg. The subconscious drive to have it has pretty much disappeared. I can even think "I need to have more meat" and then the next day, simply forget to take a package out again. My wife is no help in reminding me, most of the time.
It's not a trick question. It's right from my Physics and Astronomy 101 final exam, WAY back in 1977.
In physics, entropy is the measure of a system's thermal energy per unit temperature that is unavailable for doing useful work.
Because work is obtained from ordered molecular motion, the amount of entropy is also a measure of the molecular disorder of a system.
This isn't controversial.
My issue is that when I read about people talking about entropy, they're talking about anything but entropy. You already know what it is. Some people here seem to have attached to a colloquial definition and are applying it to science. This is an all too common trend and it leads to woo and BS.
So what overcame the initial entropy of the universe? This isn't semantics.
My issue is that when I read about people talking about entropy, they're talking about anything but entropy. You already know what it is. Some people here seem to have attached to a colloquial definition and are applying it to science. This is an all too common trend and it leads to woo and BS.
So what overcame the initial entropy of the universe? This isn't semantics.
At times like these, I ask Ethan!
"We can actually quantify the entropy of the Universe, at the moment of the Big Bang and today, in terms of Boltzmann’s constant, kB. At the moment of the Big Bang, almost all of the entropy was due to radiation, and the total entropy of the Universe was S = 10^88kB. On the other hand, if we calculate the entropy of the Universe today, it’s about a quadrillion times as large: S = 10^103kB. While both of these numbers seem large, the former number is most definitely low-entropy compared to the latter: it’s only 0.0000000000001% as large!"
"We can actually quantify the entropy of the Universe, at the moment of the Big Bang and today, in terms of Boltzmann’s constant, kB. At the moment of the Big Bang, almost all of the entropy was due to radiation, and the total entropy of the Universe was S = 10^88kB. On the other hand, if we calculate the entropy of the Universe today, it’s about a quadrillion times as large: S = 10^103kB. While both of these numbers seem large, the former number is most definitely low-entropy compared to the latter: it’s only 0.0000000000001% as large!"
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Apparently, the early Universe was so low-entropy because it didn't contain any black holes.
If there were no such things as black holes, the entropy of the Universe would have been almost constant for the past 13.8 billion years!
Ethan explains it here: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-what-was-the-entropy-of-the-universe-at-the-big-bang-45ce2622ecb7#:~:text=At the moment of the Big Bang, almost,quadrillion times as large: S = 10103 kB.
If there were no such things as black holes, the entropy of the Universe would have been almost constant for the past 13.8 billion years!
Ethan explains it here: https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-what-was-the-entropy-of-the-universe-at-the-big-bang-45ce2622ecb7#:~:text=At the moment of the Big Bang, almost,quadrillion times as large: S = 10103 kB.
There are no scientific facts, there's just what we consider true at the moment. The term is used for theories that have held up for a long time, thereofore having a high probability of being a fact. But - that can change at any time. For example Thomas Herzog (someone else mentioned his book) has published a book, covering a theory developed with Stephen Hawking, that even the "laws" of physics have evolved since the big bang.