Re: [Phys-L] 'correct physics' was Energy & Bonds

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

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On 11/13/2013 07:56 AM, Richard Tarara wrote:
> For example, I've just finished an audio course on TIME by Sean 
> Carroll of Cal Tech which dealt mostly with issues of entropy.
> While he clearly points to the Boltzmann formulation as the 'correct'
> definition of entropy, he also often talks of entropy in terms of
> disorder.

A) So, he didn't define entropy in terms of disorder.

B) Even if he had, that wouldn't make it right.

There's a lot of wrong stuff in this world.  To assume that
we are stuck with all the wrong stuff forever seems like
fatalism, defeatism, and plain old laziness.

We can't fix /everything/ overnight ... but we can fix quite
a lot of it.  A lot of the wrong stuff is ridiculously easy 
to fix.  So let's fix it already.