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We may think of order and entropy/chaos as opposites, but actually causality and entropy that are opposites, yet two sides of one coin. Causality is just order in motion.
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Order through time.
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If you mix random ratios of gas long enough, they’ll be distributed fairly evenly. Seems ordered to me, despite the increase in entropy values…
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When you get to into definitions of “order” it’s about how well details can be summarized by some other means. The more stares that are equivalent, the more entropy. If all gas molecules are ordered into a cube in perfect alignment and static, that’s easy to describe and ordered, if they are randomly bouncing around the container, that’s high entropy with nearly infinite equivalent ‘states.’
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@nerdy
I propose we re-write every cookbook to say “maximize entropy” instead of “mix ingredients”
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What this gets at is that order and chaos are all in the eye of the beholder. And perhaps why the concept is often so confusing. In many ways a glass of water seems more ordered than a block of ice.
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Yeah, kinda what I was getting at with my first comment. When my physics prof described a universe with maximum entropy I thought “huh, that sounds kinda orderly actually.”
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