The messy-bedroom explanation of entropy is wrong
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#77D1V)
Physicist Rhett Allain wants to retire the messy-bedroom explanation of entropy. Disorder, he writes in Wired, "doesn't mean messiness or chaos" - it counts the ways a system's parts can be rearranged without changing its overall state.
He uses dice instead. - Read the rest
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