06 Sep 08
Entropy or how my life feels
- Quantitative measure of the disorder of a system. The greater the disorder, the higher the entropy.
www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Book-GlossaryE.html - A measurement of the randomness in a system.
misterguch.brinkster.net/vocabulary.htm - A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work. The units of entropy for this data book are typically Joules per Kelvin (J/K) or British thermal units per Rankine (Btu/ R). …
hydrogen.pnl.gov/cocoon/morf/hydrogen/article/852 - A tendency towards disorder within a closed system, as potential energy gets “spent”. “The physical Universe’s macrocosmic proclivities of becoming locally ever more dissynchronous, asymmetric, diffuse, and multiplyingly expansive”. (Buckminster Fuller)
www.worldtrans.org/whole/wholedefs.html - Randomness: (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work; “entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity”
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webw - Entropy is the only quantity in the physical sciences that “picks” a particular direction for time, sometimes called an arrow of time. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy (arrow of time) - “Entropy” is the 18th episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy (Buffy episode)
