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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (54456)	4/25/1998 1:11:00 AM
From: M31	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Barry: Very impressive! M31

To: Barry Grossman who wrote (54456)	4/25/1998 1:45:00 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Barry, Re: "OTOTOT ... 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)." So how do you explain Darwinism and macro-evolution ?? Yousef

To: Barry Grossman who wrote (54456)	4/25/1998 4:14:00 AM
From: Gordon Hodgson	Respond to of 186894

Barry, Does that mean if you p*ss on a floor the puddle will expand until there is no more thermodynamic pressure and the puddle becomes entropic.<G> Sorry it's late.

To: Barry Grossman who wrote (54456)	4/25/1998 9:39:00 PM
From: Francis Chow	Respond to of 186894

>I was saying that things never stay the same because >entropy always increases. How is chaos the opposite? >It's the same thing. A maximum entropy system is actually very predictable, at least on a macroscopic level - uniform temperature. A chaotic system is different - it is prone to large, unpredictable changes in state in response to minor changes in the inputs. The stock market, or at least the stocks which interest me, happen to be chaotic.