Re: Entropy is a bogus and outdated concept

On 11/25/24 09:03, Bertietaylor wrote:

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:46:05 +0000, Jim Pennino wrote:
 

Bertietaylor <bertietaylor@myyahoo.com> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 16:14:35 +0000, Bertietaylor wrote:
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On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 9:21:09 +0000, Bertietaylor wrote:
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Entropy is a bogus and outdated concept. It may have had some use in the
era of heat engines but now with renewable sources who cares.

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With reactionless internal force engines it will be a joke, like the
so-called law of conservation of energy.

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Once there was a term in communication engineering called Erlang.

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There still is crackpot.

 Who uses it now, Penisnino? Not that you know anything about it so
that's a rhetorical question.

I once remember reading about statistical thermodynamics
and learning about it in college a while back.
I came to the basic conclusion which I think is true that:
Low entropy is good.
High entropy is evil.
If you then use summum bonum as a definition of
a supreme being then you might or might not proceed
from there.
I am thinking that statistical thermodynamics is the
start of 'information theory'.  The 'probability
of a state divided by all possible states'.  Or
Boltzmann's S = k log W.  Then if you just go
for heat flow definitions then heat tends to
flow from hot objects to cold objects rather
than cold objects to hot objects, which I think
tends to be true.
I generally do not think that true concepts become
outdated.  They are more eternal than the universe.