<div>James and All,</div><div><br></div><div>In the link below you will find some interesting results regarding Entropy. Among these is a rephrasing of the Second Law of Thermodynamics to read "all physical processes take some positive duration of time to occur".</div><div><br></div>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271076416_Entropy_and_'The_Arrow_of_Time'_A_Love_Story_by_Constantinos_Ragazas<div><br></div><div><div>Enjoy!</div><div><br></div><div>Kostas</div><div><br></div>kostadinos@aol.com<br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: James Rose <integrity@prodigy.net><br>To: General Physics and Natural Philosophy discussion list <physics@tuks.nl><br>Sent: Tue, Apr 28, 2020 12:51 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Physics] New topic question: Entropy<br><br><br><div id="yiv2197038427"><div><div class="yiv2197038427ydpfcd7ec0ayahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">Ilja,<br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Intersting association. From my readings .. "entropy" came from Clausius, Gibbs, and Boltzmann . to mathematize dynamic phenomena related to gasses, machines and the industrial revolution.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">James<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Monday, April 27, 2020, 9:26:17 PM PDT, Ilja Schmelzer <ilja.schmelzer@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">The actual definition of entropy is not strongly associated with<br clear="none">thermodynamics. It is, instead, part of Bayesian probability theory.<br clear="none">They apply a method named "entropic inference" to a lot of very<br clear="none">different things.<br clear="none"><div class="yiv2197038427ydp696d9323yqt0795641950" id="yiv2197038427ydp696d9323yqtfd35765"><br clear="none">2020-04-28 6:39 GMT+06:30, James Rose <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:integrity@prodigy.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:integrity@prodigy.net">integrity@prodigy.net</a>>:<br clear="none">> Good day, all,<br clear="none">> Is anyone considering that current convention analysis/designations of<br clear="none">> 'entropy' might be incomplete and worthy of further investigation?<br clear="none">> I am a General Systems analyst ... dealing with such things as 'complexity',<br clear="none">> emergence, enaction principles that are currently -different- between<br clear="none">> non-living (effectively aka . "closed") systems .. and .. living<br clear="none">> (effectively aka . "open") systems .. and if there is a way to correlate the<br clear="none">> types more accurately .. where .. the possibility exists that they actually<br clear="none">> have a -shared- core mechanism for their behaviors and performance<br clear="none">> attributes~capabilities?<br clear="none">> (sorry for the long question .. there is a lot to corral together and<br clear="none">> consider simultaneously)<br clear="none">> I have been looking at an essential adapted definition of entropy ... a<br clear="none">> 'generalization' .. so to speak ... where it is not so strongly associated<br clear="none">> with thermodynamics. I am not intimating such a new model has -no-<br clear="none">> association with thermodynamics .. only that thermodynamics of only -one-<br clear="none">> ... of -several- possible phenomena and dynamics .. where some other core<br clear="none">> qualia which is central and key to "entropy" .. can be identified and seen<br clear="none">> in non-thermodynamic evaluated systems.<br clear="none">> I would appreciate any thoughts. I have begun the building of new equations<br clear="none">> that exactly identify that attribute of entropic factors and especially ...<br clear="none">> defining "-interactions- between local entropic groupings". [similar to<br clear="none">> Prigogine's model of 'far from equilibrium' ..but even more general than his<br clear="none">> equations (i.e. - not limited to chemistry)].<br clear="none">> Thank you everyone, for considering my question(s). Looking forward to<br clear="none">> responses and opinions.....<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> James (Jamie) <a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Roseintegrity@prodigy.netMinden" target="_blank" href="mailto:Roseintegrity@prodigy.netMinden">Roseintegrity@prodigy.netMinden</a> NV (north NV near Carson<br clear="none">> City)</div><br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Physics mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Physics@tuks.nl" target="_blank" href="mailto:Physics@tuks.nl">Physics@tuks.nl</a><br clear="none"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://mail.tuks.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/physics">http://mail.tuks.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/physics</a><div class="yiv2197038427ydp696d9323yqt0795641950" id="yiv2197038427ydp696d9323yqtfd02073"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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