ext_7395 ([identity profile] green-maia.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] beer_good_foamy 2011-03-31 01:08 am (UTC)

Quick entropy lesson: the way entropy is thermodynamically defined (one of the ways) is that entropy S = kB ln Omega, where kB is Boltzmann's constant, ln is the natural logarithm (an increasing function) and Omega is the number of possible microstates with a given macrostate. Which means that the higher the entropy, the more possible orientations. It's right in the definition that more entropy means more "possibilities," even as there's less order.

Fascinating. Thank you.


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