Re: Entropy: quenched disorder is entropy

[David Bowman <David_Bowman@GEORGETOWNCOLLEGE.EDU>]

Regarding Barlow's addendum:

> ..addendum to last post.  I guess a part of what is confusing me is
> that I thought the probability of any particular arrangement of cards in
> a deck is the same.

If no particular sequence is specified and no other information is
given by which one could bias the probabilities, then, yes, in a
Bayesian sense, the probabilities of all sequences, are the same.


>  It shouldn't matter (in my view) whether the cards
> are all arranged in order or not--they are in some order and that is all
> that matters.

This, too, is the position of Leigh and me--but not John.

>   Differences in probability arise when we as questions
> like:  What is the probability that the first four cards in the sequence
> are black?   This does not seem to be what you are talking about?

True.  We are not talking about that.

David Bowman
David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu