Entropy

Mittwoch, 24. April 2013 - 00:14

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

Gilbert Newton Lewis, Letter to Irving Langmuir, 5 Aug 1930.
Quoted in Nathan Reingold, Science in America: A Documentary History 1900-1939 (1981), 400.


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