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Re: Chez Watt (Re: Entropy and life order)

From Athel Cornish-Bowden <acornish@imm.cnrs.fr>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Chez Watt (Re: Entropy and life order)
Date 2022-12-12 21:43 +0100
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On 2022-12-12 20:17:47 +0000, mitchr...@gmail.com said:

> On Monday, December 12, 2022 at 3:45:58 AM UTC-8, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>> Quantum mechanics is intrinsically negentropic.
>> File under: How informative can you be?
>> 
>> Jan
>> 
>> (explanation)
>> Our sister group t.o. has a regular 'Chez Watt' session.
>> 'Chez Watt'-s are used to highlight the most silly, inane, stupid
>> or just plain dumb entries.
>> 
>> A category in which to file it under is required.
>> If there are enough there is a monthly Chez Watt vote
>> to determine the best one.
>> 
>> Let's try to get it sarted here too.
> 
> Entropy is not negative order. That does not exist.
> What does exist is the mix order instead.

Negentropy is a term invented, I think, by Erwin Schrödinger. A 
unfortunate and misleading term, in my opinion, because it doesn't mean 
negative entropy but low entropy.

-- 
Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 36+ years; mainly 
in England until 1987.

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      Chez Watt (Re: Entropy and life order) nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2022-12-12 12:45 +0100
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