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Ludwik Kowalski writes:David Bowman wrote
1) I am sorry the word "entropy" was introduced into my message. The
terms "order" is "disorder" would certainly be sufficient (see below).
..BIG SNIP
Thank you David, for a very thorough explanation of the different uses of
When Leigh says that thermodynamic entropy is not related to order/disorder
what he means (I think) is that any increase in the order in a
*macroscopic* pattern seen in a system (such as in the arrangment of
floating whisker fragments in a toilet bowl) is not related to the system's
*thermodynamic* entropy. The thermodynamic entropy measures uncertainty (or
disorder if you will) at the level of the individual (atomic) microstates
for the system, *not* at the level of any possible macroscopic patterns.