Explain entropy in 4 sentences or less.

[Taverner]

!

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. "Less is more."

[Taverner]

2. Huh?

Goose egg here!

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. "Quantitative measure of the disorder of a system. The greater the disorder, the higher the entropy.

www4.nau.edu/meteorite/Meteorite/Book-GlossaryE.html

or, less order is more entropy.

[Taverner]

10. OK Sentence #3 - Define Disorder

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. Da opposite of dat order. Capiche?

[pokerfan]

15. Order/disorder is perhaps more accurately defined as energy "quality"

Every thermodynamic process reduces the "quality" of energy, rendering it more and more scattered and diffuse.

I suppose you want a definition of energy "quality." OK, energy that is NOT scattered and diffuse, i.e. energy that is available to do "work" in the thermodynamic sense.

[KitchenWitch]

3. A neat pile of papers will never stay neat for long.

[Taverner]

4. You're getting closer...

Don't be afraid to use the 3 other sentences you are allotted...

[KitchenWitch]

5. Forces unseen and unknown will cause said neat pile of papers to be strewn all over the universe

[Taverner]

7. OK Sentence # 2

You have 2 more

[KitchenWitch]

8. Entropy is not so much to be understood as to be accepted

[Taverner]

11. Sentence #3 (woulda been my #4, but hey! KW is smarter than me :) )

[KitchenWitch]

13. truth told, I kind of ran out of gas...

[Ptah]

9. I'll try.

A functional machine rusts.



What was once tangible decays in time.

Entropy is the inevitable dissolution into chaos.

[femmocrat]

12. A canine eyelid disorder.

(I think)

[Zornhau]

16. Shit always breaks.

then end

[madinmaryland]

17. I believe this is four sentences....

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing and he concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

The President exclaims, "OH NO, that's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

:evilgrin:

[redqueen]

18. Disorder happens.

[rug]

19. One sentence.

Things flal a pt ra a.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. The laws of thermodynamics in four sentences.

1st law: There's no such thing as a free lunch.

2nd law: You won't even break even.

3rd law: There's no such thing as a free lunch, no matter how incredibly crappy and cheap the meal is.

0th law: The waiter's getting screwed too.

[Lady Effingbroke]

21. me.

[LynzM]

22. Ok.

The tendency of things to move toward complete, homogenized chaos over time.

[Inchworm]

23. Randomness can be measured

:hi:

[baldguy]

24. Entropy is a measure of the unavailability of a system’ s energy to do work,

and a measure of the disorder of molecules in a syst em, and
is central to the second law of thermodynami cs and to the
fundamental t  hermodynamic relation, b oth of which deal with
p  hysical processes and w   hether they occur  unexpectedly.
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[Lethe]

25. if I stand outside your window, throwing glass empties into it

the shattered glass will not form a william shatner statue

[tekisui]

26. There is order.

There is less order.
Orderless.
slodredrder.

[tigereye]

27. "Things fall apart. The center will not hold."

[Xipe Totec]

28. Tax on the Universe

[Kali]

29. 4 words: the tendency to disorganization

AKA my house

[PfcHammer]

30. Teh house is always dirty