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> entropy is just a fancy word for ‘number of possible arrangements’ It isn’t though. Entropy is a fancy word for potential distribution over negative potenti
by xtrapol8 2y ago
> entropy is just a fancy word for ‘number of possible arrangements’
It isn’t though.
Entropy is a fancy word for potential distribution over negative potential. Negative potential is the “surface area” over which potential may distribute. The “number of possible arrangements” casually fits into this, yet misses some unintuitive possibilities, like the resistive variance or other characteristics not preempted by who ever constructed the intellectual model.
Idealists insist entropy is a scalar state resolve of delta probability in their model. They are self deceived. Entropy is the existential tendency for potential to distribute toward equilibrium.
As long as boffins can throw away results that do not correlate, they can insist it is anything they like.
- ninetyninenine 2y ago>Entropy is a fancy word for potential distribution over negative potential. Negative potential is the “surface area” over which potential may distribute. I don't understand this. Please elucidate.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoConsider that if you Google for `"resistive variance" entropy`, the only hit is for the hn comment. It doesn't make sense because what they wrote makes no sense. Probably some looney with their own definition of entropy.
- xtrapol8 2y agoWell, this looney likes to point out that the manifold surface area (which is not always uniform) determines the rate of or density of distribution. All this is accounted for in the math selected for whichever for instance (“number of possible states” would count them) though a superior definition is one which is the most general technically correct without enumerating exceptions or extraneous clauses. Resistance controls the rate of flow of any potential. That you cannot parse English without an exact match of phrase is kind of ironic. I guess when arguing convention I shouldn’t be too casual with my own language. Entropy is the distribution of potential over negative potential. In every case. Period. All the other words we use describe how this happens in a specific context (thermal or information). Can you find an established definition that can be more succinctly regarded as this? Also I like insisting it is a phenomenon of existential reality, not a conceptual tool of the human mind.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoI'm not interested in reading your word salad.
- ninetyninenine 2y agoCan you explain exactly what potential is and what it means to have negative potential in very fundamental terms? Like explain it to me if I’m 8. Use real world examples. Then explain what is and how this relates to a manifold surface area?
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- xtrapol8 2y agoEntropy is not enumerated states 1 point by xtrapol8 1 day ago | hide | past | favorite Entropy is an existential property describing the distribution of potential. Popularly leading minds in physics, math, and information theory have long upheld a number of standing definitions which do not consistently coincide with observable or functional Truth (causing enumerations and conditions.) These have represented the best of our ideas, and have been accepted among you generationally as immutable and foundational. These definitions are imperfect and addressing it as such has triggered a blowback of condescension revealing hypocrisy within the cult of science. I contended this monumental revelation as substantial, edging forward the understanding of all human kind. Entropy is an existential force, not an abstract idea. Entropy is the distribution of potential toward equilibrium. Our Universe IS NOT COMPOSED OF STATES. States are momentary values taken under measurement (as extolled by a recent Nobel Prize.) If science can say “the universe is not locally real”, it is time to say entropy is not a number of states, it is potential distributing. The conceptual resistance this idea has provoked reveals an intellectually brittle character among the very ideas of discovery and understanding. This inflexibility demonstrates a blindness towards one’s own learned misconceptions, the antithesis of advanced learning (which resolves our simple truths.) Entropy is not a construct of the mind, and it is not limited to known states of a modeled problem, in existential reality it includes all possibilities even those breaking intellectual models.
- kelnos 2y agoYour post is a good primer on bullshit detection: if you read something on the internet that sounds confidently authoritative, but you yourself are not well-versed in the subject, find what seems to be some key phrases and search the web for them. If you find lots of other hits on seemingly-reputable sources, then what you've read may be correct. If you only find the thing that you've just read, it's bullshit, with high probability.
- xtrapol8 2y agoEntropy is not the number of possible states in a system. Entropy includes outcomes not predicted by the mental model. Convention teaches this incorrectly. I’m the black sheep, bhaaaa.
- xtrapol8 2y agoPlease refer to the comment of this comment!
- lisper 2y ago> I don't understand this. That's because it's nonsense.
- xtrapol8 2y agoThe inverse square law is an example of potential distribution, not number of states.