Hi All,
I feel like a Toffoli disciple. I cannot recreate the argument right now, but he argues that an increase in entropy is compatible with reversible and irreversible processes, but a decrease in entropy is only compatible with reversible dynamics. The argument is interesting and the book where it appears (he was talking at the "Data Ecologies 05" event last year) is due out "some time soon"... cheers, tim On Apr 11, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Jesse Mazer wrote: > Likewise, I think "the second law is interpreted as the destruction of > information" needs a bit of clarification--as entropy increases, there > are > more and more microstates compatible with a given macrostate so the > observer > is losing information about the microstate, but information is not > really > being lost at a fundamental level, since *in principle* it would > always be > possible to measure a system's exact microstate. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
