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If the phase changes happen on any kind of non-random schedule, however, it would still be introducing information into the system. And therefore violating know
by ballenf 5y ago
If the phase changes happen on any kind of non-random schedule, however, it would still be introducing information into the system. And therefore violating know laws. Right?
- teraflop 5y agoWhat known laws would it be violating? If you're thinking of the second law of thermodynamics, bear in mind that popular descriptions that equate "entropy" with "information" or "non-randomness" are extremely oversimplifying things. A periodic change in a system does not necessarily imply a decrease in entropy.
- marcosdumay 5y agoThe molecules of a solid also vibrate in a highly predictable schedule¹. One of the effects of quantum mechanics is that many of those things are much more predictable than one would expect naively. 1 - That's very useful for material identification, for example.