Timeline for Definition of "equally likely" in statistical mechanics
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| Aug 24, 2021 at 3:34 | vote | accept | silverbackgorilla | ||
| Aug 22, 2021 at 10:01 | comment | added | Prallax | I'd say that your guess is correct. You can say that equally likely means that the system spends the same time on average on each state. Or (like Níckolas Alves said), you could say that each state has the same probability of being the the true microstate at a given time. It can be shown (under some lax hypotheses) that these two definitions coincide. | |
| Aug 22, 2021 at 7:54 | answer | added | Níckolas Alves | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 22, 2021 at 6:56 | history | asked | silverbackgorilla | CC BY-SA 4.0 |