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To: Francis Chow who wrote (54402)	4/25/1998 12:52:00 AM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Francis, OTOTOT Re: >>One thing I've learned - things never stay the same. It's entropy I think.<< and your, I think it's the opposite - chaos :-) I was saying that things never stay the same because entropy always increases. How is chaos the opposite? It's the same thing. From various sources: entropy - higher entropy corresponds to greater disorder on the molecular scale. - A measure of the disorder of a system. Systems tend to go from a state of order (low entropy) to a state of maximum disorder (high entropy). - A measure of the extent to which the energy of a system is unavailable. In an adiabatic process, the entropy increases if the process is irreversible and remains unchanged if the process is reversible. Thus, since all natural processes are irreversible, it is said that in an isolated system the entropy is always increasing as the system tends toward equilibrium, a statement which may be considered a form of the second law of thermodynamics. ---------- Barry