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FROM IT TO BIT. “The Shannon entropy of a message is the number of binary digits, or bits, needed to encode it. Shannon entropy does not enlighten us about the value of information, which is highly dependent on context. Yet as an objective measure of quantity of information, it has been enormously useful in science and technology.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENT IDEAS. “When Shannon cast about for a way to quantify the information contained in, say, a message, he was led by logic to a formula with the same form as Boltzmann's.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

ENTROPY STATES. “In 1877 Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann characterized it more precisely in terms of the number of distinct microscopic states that the particles composing a chunk of matter could be in while still looking like the same macroscopic chunk of matter.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

CHAOS. “Thermodynamic entropy is popularly described as the disorder in a physical system.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

“ENTROPY had long been a central concept of thermodynamics, the branch of physics dealing with heat.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

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THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS ARE WRITTEN ON SUBWAY WALLS. “Time is the physical (can't think of a better word) manifestation of entropy, the distribution of possible configurations of a closed system. Matter is not space, it just sits inside of it. Net entropy is always increasing, and applies to antimatter as well as matter.” https://lnkd.in/d849xrv View in LinkedIn

FALLING INTO THE BLACK HOLE. “Its energy (we count any mass as energy in accordance with Einstein's E = mc2) is permanently reflected in an increment in the black hole's mass.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

BOLTZMANN. “Thermodynamic entropy, in contrast, depends on the states of all the billions of atoms (and their roaming electrons) that make up each transistor.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

FORENSIC EVIDENCE. “It is impossible to determine what is inside a black hole. No detailed information can emerge across the horizon and escape into the outside world. In disappearing forever into a black hole, however, a piece of matter does leave some traces.” (Soft hair). https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn