Saturday, March 26, 2005

Yet another gem

The best definition of entropy I never read:
Entropy is a measure of the disorder of a system of matter. Nature tends to favor changes towards increased entropy because increased entropy/DISORDER is the STATISTICALLY MOST LIKELY STATE OF A COLLECTION OF PARTICLES! After all what are the odds that a mole of gas particles would just exist in one corner of a full container? Not high, not even low.