Dear Colleagues, You would think, .... . But no.
I am planning to complete my "report" on entropy in the next few days and put it behind me as best I can. I will send you a copy for giggles. In the meantime, I would like to explore a thought which Eric S offered me several weeks ago which has continued to echo in my head like wolf howls in a box canyon. It was something like, "entropy does not appear in the monotonic idea gas equation because it is the landscape that determines the shape of that equation" Please forgive the misattribution, EricS. I have been struggling to come up with a metametaphor by which to understand this aphorism and it be something like gravity does not appear in calculations of travel time from here to chicago. I am tempted to say something like, "Instead of heat flowing down a temperature slope as Carnot would have it, we have energy flowing down an entropy slope." I am giving you all a chance to pre-box my ears for saying it. Nick -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
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