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I might be completely off kilter here (please tell me if that's the case!), but what makes sense to me is to think about "how much entropy is left", as in "how
by Timon3 3y ago
I might be completely off kilter here (please tell me if that's the case!), but what makes sense to me is to think about "how much entropy is left", as in "how much can entropy still increase between the current state and the highest entropy state". That flips the meaning to describe what you're talking about, and feels very intuitive to me.
- spuz 3y agoWhen you say "how much entropy is left?" you make it sound like a quantity that is decreasing, not increasing. That seems incorrect, no?
- Timon3 3y agoThat's why I specified that it's meant as "how much can entropy still increase between the current state and the highest entropy state". If you can't read it in that sense, either ignore the shorter question or read it as "how much increase of entropy left". Or maybe "how much entropy left until max".
- nobody9999 3y ago>"how much entropy left until max". 10^106 years[0] worth or so. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe