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Why is thermodynamics beyond doubt? [duplicate]
Eddington once gave the following quote:
The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the ...
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Why is the second law of thermodynamics indisputable? [duplicate]
Why is the second law of thermodynamics undisputable?
On his website Professor Hawking says the following:
The cosmologist, Sir Arthur Eddington, once said, 'Don't worry if your
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What is entropy really?
On this site, change in entropy is defined as the amount of energy dispersed divided by the absolute temperature. But I want to know: What is the definition of entropy? Here, entropy is defined as ...
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What is information?
We're all familiar with basic tenets such as "information cannot be transmitted faster than light" and ideas such as information conservation in scenarios like Hawking radiation (and in general, ...
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Does the scientific community consider the Loschmidt paradox resolved? If so what is the resolution?
Does the scientific community consider the Loschmidt paradox resolved? If so what is the resolution?
I have never seen dissipation explained, although what I have seen a lot is descriptions of ...
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Is a world with constant/decreasing entropy theoretically impossible?
We can imagine many changes to the laws of physics - you could scrap all of electromagnetism, gravity could be an inverse cubed law, even the first law of thermodynamics could hypothetically be broken ...
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How do you prove the second law of thermodynamics from statistical mechanics?
How do you prove the second law of thermodynamics from statistical mechanics? To prove entropy will only increase with time? How to prove? Please guide.
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Entropy as an arrow of time
From what I understand, entropy is a concept defined by the experimentalist due to his ignorance of the exact microstate of a system. To say the number of accessible microstates $W$ of the universe is ...
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Theoretical proof forbidding Loschmidt reversal?
In a famous debate, Loschmidt criticized Boltzmann's new theory of statistical mechanics by asking what would happen if the velocities of all the atoms were reversed. Typical objections are that such ...
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Why does Law of Large Numbers work?
Often I see books and professors reasoning that, in order to make a good experiment, many measurements are necessary because then the average value of a quantity is closer to the expected value ...
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If entropy is increasing does it mean universe is non-deterministic?
I watched some video where they said entropy can be considered as information.
They also stated that universe's entropy is always increasing...
Now here comes the problem my IT mind can't understand:
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Connection between Kolmogorov entropy and Boltzmann entropy
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/527384/what-is-the-connectivity-between-boltzmanns-entropy-expression-and-shannons-en mentions a relationship between Shannon entropy and Boltzmann entropy. Is ...
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Light Polarizer and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
I have stumped myself with a thought experiment of my own devising.
Suppose I take a beam of wholly depolarised, but otherwise plane wave light. Its von Neumann entropy per photon is $\log(2)$ nats ...
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How does the second law of thermodynamics follow from low entropy of early universe?
One of the explanations of the second law of thermodynamics is that it goes back to the low entropy in the early universe (How do you prove the second law of thermodynamics from statistical mechanics?)...
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What is governing the laws of physics? [closed]
What makes all the laws of physics do what they do? What is the governor of all of those laws?
