On 3/20/2014 9:10 AM, John Clark wrote:
The fact remains that if Entropy is proportional to the logarithm of the number of microstates something can be in and still have the same macrostate then it's also proportional to the logarithm of the number of ways the thing could have been produced and still have the same macrostate.
That doesn't follow. It's true only if it's a closed system so that there can't be two different ways to reach the same microstate. But in general, systems, such as a black hole, can be put in the same microstate in more than one way because they are not closed and the unitary (reversible) evolution applies only to the system plus environment.
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