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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Entropy is a bogus and outdated concept
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:03:02 -0600
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On 11/26/24 1:41 AM, x wrote:
> 
> I once remember reading about statistical thermodynamics
> and learning about it in college a while back.
> 
> I came to the basic conclusion which I think is true that:
> 
> Low entropy is good.
> 
> High entropy is evil.
> 
> If you then use summum bonum as a definition of
> a supreme being then you might or might not proceed
> from there.
> 
> I am thinking that statistical thermodynamics is the
> start of 'information theory'.  The 'probability
> of a state divided by all possible states'.  Or
> Boltzmann's S = k log W.  Then if you just go
> for heat flow definitions then heat tends to
> flow from hot objects to cold objects rather
> than cold objects to hot objects, which I think
> tends to be true.
> 
> I generally do not think that true concepts become
> outdated.  They are more eternal than the universe.


You sound like a high school drop out. Jump in my kill file bag yet one 
more time.