Yes the ephemeral nature is why I put a lot of the good stuff on my own
hard drive.
I hope the various "digital library" initiatives of APS (or is it AAPT)
will take on the task of archiving such things.
Joel
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Forum for Physics Educators
| [mailto:PHYS-L@list1.ucc.nau.edu] On Behalf Of Bernard Cleyet
| Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:28 PM
| To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
| Subject: Re: entropy
|
| "> For a computer simulation that quantitatively demonstrates
| the > difference between complexity and entropy, see
| > http://www.av8n.com/physics/entropy-sim.htm
| > "
|
| The problem I have w/ such sites as the above is they're ...
| ephemeral.
|
| Must one copy it to ones HD, or is there an institution that
| would preserve them?
|
| bc, not so worried as he's older than most of the keepers of
| such sites, but he thinks others should be.
|
| P.s. books last, at least those not made during the war, but
| have such low density.
|
|
| John Denker wrote:
|
| > Larry Smith wrote:
| >
| >>Brian Greene ... argues that it is more probable that the universe
| >>was created last Tuesday at 1210 GMT with us and all our memories
| >>intact than that the universe had lower entropy in the past.
| >
| >
| > That's a common misconception.
| >
| > It is a mistake to think that a "complicated" state such as
| the "one
| > week ago" state must be a high-entropy state. In fact,
| there are many
| > quite-complicated states that have little or no entropy.
| >
| > For a computer simulation that quantitatively demonstrates the
| > difference between complexity and entropy, see
| > http://www.av8n.com/physics/entropy-sim.htm
| >
| > If you take the present state and evolve it forward a week or so,
| > unpredictable thermal fluctuations will result in many
| cut
|