I'm pretty sure this means that something or some concept will never make money. Or something on the market that cannot be marketed. What are some signs of Entropy? Real cheap AA batteries that are old in mass quantities?
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Re: The word, Entropy
Sat, March 15, 2008 - 12:23 PMEntropy is the second law of thermodynamics. It describes the tendency in the universe for things to go from a state of order to a state of disorder. An example would be ice melting. Unless energy (cold) is applied to keep it in its orderly state (ice), it tends to revert to its more disorderly state (water). -
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Re: The word, Entropy
Sun, March 16, 2008 - 5:12 PMSo, would the antonym be extropy?
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Re: The word, Entropy
Sun, March 16, 2008 - 5:20 PMMy handy check of dictionary.com gives several definitions. In thermodynamics, it can mean "measure of energy not available for work" and also "randomness of the microscopic constituents of a thermodynamic system. Entropy can also be a measure of the loss of information in messages. There is also an entry describing a cosmological tendency to attain homogeneity, in which all matter is at the same temperature. Then again, there is another definition of entropy as "a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration."
Amusingly, I just posted on another tribe that Robert Heinlein stated that a decline in social manners signals the end of civilization.
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Re: The word, Entropy
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 1:35 AMExtropy: noun: the pseudoscientific prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe.
Given the fact that entropy keeps increasing, and that its antonym is thus a purely theoretical construct, I'd plonk for Utropy ;)
Oh, and civilisation has been going downhill for millenia. Personally, I blame the influx of the hoi-polloi, economically challenged, alternate gendered and culurally diverse. Life was so much more civilised when only real gentlemen of importance were dealing with each other ;)
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Re: The word, Entropy
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 5:59 AM"So, would the antonym be extropy? "
It is Negentropy or Syntropy. See
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negentropy
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Mon, March 17, 2008 - 11:32 AMI think it also explains why you can never get your duvet cover back in the original packaging. Chaos reigns. -
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Re: The word, Entropy
Mon, March 17, 2008 - 6:28 PMMy two sons provide me with my own in-house entropy generator. All that is orderly is systematically laid waste, all that is working is broken.
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Tue, March 18, 2008 - 11:41 AMI thought cold was lack of energy. -
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Re: The word, Entropy
Wed, March 19, 2008 - 7:17 AM"I thought cold was lack of energy."
No. It's the amount that the entropy increases per small increase of energy.
Karl
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