“I intentionally chose the word Entropy as similar as possible to the word Energy…
The energy of the universe is constant; the entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.”
The question, “What is Entropy?” elicits a multitude of definitions and answers reflecting the beliefs, language and behaviour of almost every major school of thought in the Anglo-world. Most definitions emanate from formations of experts whose lifestyles are extremely delusional and unsustainable by any common measure.
All this confusion and conflict about the meaning of “entropy” is profound evidence supporting the hypothesis that when men (human beings) embrace fatally flawed notions of what energy is, then their lives unravel in division, delusion, depravity and dereliction.
This article suggests we can lessen the risk of this fate by enjoying compassion and ensuring we employ the most transcendent meanings of these words according to the wisdom of the Conservation of Energy Principle.
There is an abundance of abstract mathematical formulations but no practical formulations such as images of exploded mineral oil blasting out the exhaust of a car or jet in the form of lethal pollution or of broken $2 switches rendering an expensive household device obsolete or of the Shuttle exploding after a small rubber o-ring failed.
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Researchers in an Entropy Wonderland: A Review of the Entropy Concept
Marko Popovic
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602
Key words: Thermal entropy; Shannon entropy; Residual entropy; Total entropy; Negentropy.
- Introduction
Entropy concept is frequently used in many scientific disciplines: physics [1-70], equilibrium and non-
equilibrium thermodynamics [1-25, 60-70], statistical mechanics [89,91,95], cosmology [50-59], life
sciences [42-46, 86], chemistry and biochemistry [60-67], geosciences [85], linguistics [84], social sciences
[83], and information theory [41,69,74, 88].
Before we proceed to review the entropy concept, it should be stressed that the concept is often used,
misused and even abused in the literature [30, 79-82, 108]. The widespread use of entropy in many
disciplines lead to many contradictions and misconceptions involving entropy, [80,81].
“Whoever uses the term ‘entropy’ in a discussion always wins since no one knows what
John von Neumann (1903 – 1957) Polymath
entropy really is, so in a debate one always has the advantage”
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We are information beings, existing as dynamic balances of information and we live the following fundamental connundrum of our human condition:
We exist as unique, finite formations amidst the continuous, universal transformation, paradoxically informing all even as we are informed by all. And this continuous transformation (change) is a universal constant i.e. unchanging.
All forms are of energy; no form is energy.
Every man (human energy) is vitally sentient of energy; no man can truly know what energy is.
“Energy” and “power” are inextricably interconnected and understanding their complementary relationship is critical to our survival.
Energy being the universal potential, the most transcendent definition of the word “power” is this:
Power is our measure of the rate the universal is manifest.
We are our language and we live the paradox of information: our use of a symbol simultaneously reflects and generates our state of being.
We are sustained according the degree our use of a symbol is in harmony with the principles of physics – we perish if our actions (our language~~behaviour) are in denial of and dissonant with the ways of the universe