In the 1960s, the physicist E.T. Jaynes showed that Boltzmann’s entropy is not just a measure of disorder or the number of microstates that correspond to a particular macrostate. Entropy is also a ...
Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...