81. Bad Gods -- Humor By Lore Sjöberg entropy and irony live together in perfect harmony. http://badgods.com/series-lorebrandcomics.html

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82. Entropy Explained Dec 18, 2006 Explanation of entropy and how it is hopelessly misunderstood by creationists and sometimes even some of their opponents. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/entropy.html

TEST Library Modern Richard Carrier Bad Science, Worse Philosophy : Entropy Explained Entropy Explained (2003, 2005) Richard Carrier Addendum A to "Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster's The Philosophical Scientists" (2000) Introduction The concept of entropy is generally not well understood among laymen. With the help of several physicists, including Wolfgang Gasser and Malcolm Schreiber, I have composed the following article in an attempt to correct a common misunderstanding.[ ] Contrary to what many laymen think, there is no Law of Entropy which states that order must always decrease. That is a layman's fiction, although born from a small kernel of reality. The actual Law of Entropy is better known as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The First Law is that energy is not created or destroyed, and the Third Law is that absolute zero cannot be achievedeach of these laws is actually entailed from the first, in conjunction with certain other assumptions. But it is the Second Law that many laymen incorrectly think says that order must always decrease. In traditional thermodynamics, entropy is a measure of the amount of energy in a closed system that is no longer available to effect changes in that system. A system is closed when no energy is being added to or removed from it, and energy becomes unavailable not by leaving the system, but by becoming irretrievably disordered, as a consequence of the laws of statistical mechanics. But even though the total amount of energy that is irretrievably disordered will increase, this does not mean order cannot increase somewhere else in that same system. This is where confusion arises. Of course, entropy can be measured in an open system, too, but this introduces additional variables, and of course the Second Law then no longer applies. But even when the Second Law applies, it is still possible for a closed system to produce order, even highly elaborate order, so long as there is a greater increase in disorder somewhere else in the system.

83. Entropy On Myspace Music - Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads Myspace profile for entropy. Find friends, share photos, keep in touch with classmates, and meet new people on Myspace. http://www.myspace.com/entropyis

84. Entropy entropy is a large scale photography project about Romania undertaken by Tudor Prisacariu. http://www.entropy.ro/

Entropy is a large scale photography project about Romania started by Tudor Prisacariu in 2007. It is an attempt to achieve a better understanding of contemporary Romania and the complex transformation process that it is currently undergoing. Tudor Prisăcariu

85. Entropy@Everything2.com In Mage the Ascension, entropy is the Sphere that allows one to change Destiny. As the universe is fated towards disorganization, masters of entropy understand that it is http://www.everything2.com/title/entropy

86. MELTING Homepage Computes, for a nucleic acid duplex, the enthalpy, the entropy and the melting temperature of the helix-coil transitions. http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lenov/meltinghome.html

This program computes, for a nucleic acid duplex, the enthalpy, the entropy and the melting temperature of the helix-coil transitions. Three types of hybridisation are possible: DNA/DNA, DNA/RNA, and RNA/RNA. The program first computes the hybridisation enthalpy and entropy from the elementary parameters of each Crick's pair by the nearest-neighbor method. Then the melting temperature is computed. The set of thermodynamic parameters can be easely changed, for instance following an experimental breakthrough. MELTING is a free program (free as in freedom). Its source code is open, and you can get MELTING from here for free. MELTING 4 is written in ISO C and MELTING 5 in Java. It can be compiled on any operating system. Some perl scripts are provided for MELTING 4 to show how melting can be used as a block to construct more ambitious tools. The current stable version is v5.0.3 MELTING 5 has been rewritten from the beginning in Java (1.5) and provides a large set of thermodynamic models to compute the enthalpy and entropy of several structures in the duplex : perfectly matching sequences, single mismatch, tandem mismatch, internal loop, single dangling end, second dangling end, long dangling end (only one to four poly A), single bulge loop, long bulge loop, inosine base (I), hydroxyadenine (A*), azobenzene (cis X_C and trans X_T), locked nucleic acids (Al, Gl, Tl, Cl). MELTING 5 can manage a fourth type of hybridization : 2-o-methyl RNA/RNA. A lot of new ion corrections are available for Sodium, Magnesium, Potassium, Tris concentrations. The algorithm of Owczarzy et al is used to determine which correction to apply (see the MELTING 5 documentation for further information). New approximative formulas are available and to take into account the magnesium, tris and potassium concentrations, a sodium equivalent concentration is determined before computing the melting temperature with one of the approximative formulas. Some formulas are also available to correct the melting temperature when DMSO and formamide are present. The MELTING predictions accuracy has been improved in the 5 version, mostly for self complementary sequences. See the

87. Entropyandwhatelse, Entropy Catalyst Efficiency In Life Evolution Thermodynamic classification of life, and suggestions for possible applications in unified field theory. Provides descriptions of models, formulas, references and contact details. http://www.entropyandthen.net

88. Entropy It is not surprising that entropy changes are largest when the system is in a added (dQ/dt) is a constant, then the rate of entropy increase (dS/dt) is http://www.7stones.com/Homepage/Publisher/entropy.html

Back to Contents. The light blue square is 300x300 pixels - 90,000 pixels total. Each pixel can exist in one of two states, light blue, or dark blue (the dark blue square is just the dual of the light blue). Each time cycle a single pixel will switch states. Once the square has changed from its initial state (all pixels light blue - very low probability state), it is virtually impossible that it will ever spontaneously revert. Most states are in the roughly 50-50 region (ie., 50% light blue, and 50% dark). These high probability states have the highest entropy. It is not surprising that entropy changes are largest when the system is in a low probability state. This is somewhat analogous to adding heat (Q) to an ideal gas kept at a constant volume. Adding heat raises the temperature. At any given moment the increase in entropy, dS, due to added heat, dQ, is dS = dQ/T. So (dS/dt) = (dQ/dt)/T. If the rate that heat is added (dQ/dt) is a constant, then the rate of entropy increase (dS/dt) is highest when T is smallest. At constant volume, dQ/T is proportional to dQ/Q, the fractional increase

89. Entropy The most probable result, occurring onesixth of the time, is to get seven. Surprisingly, the first known successful calculation of the above probabilities didn't occur until http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/Entropy/Entropy.html

Entropy Click here to go to the UPSCALE home page. Click here to go to the Physics Virtual Bookshelf Click here to go to the JPU200Y home page. Author This document was written in February 1999 by David M. Harrison, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, mailto:harrison@physics.utoronto.ca . This is version 1.7, date (m/d/y) 09/17/02. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Content License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml INTRODUCTION "A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more varied the kinds of things that it relates and the more extended the area of its applicability. Therefore classical thermodynamics has made a deep impression on me. It is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced, within the areas of the applicability of its basic concepts, will never be overthrown." Einstein (1949) DEFINING THE ENTROPY We shall define the entropy in three different yet equivalent ways.

90. The Second Law Of Thermodynamics A qualitative introduction to the second law and entropy written for beginners in chemistry but useful for physics students too. Explains relationship with Murphy s Law. http://www.secondlaw.com

Notice secondlaw.com is now http://secondlaw.oxy.edu . Please update your links and bookmarks. Time's Arrow Murphy's Law Activation Energy Chemical Kinetics ... Chemical Bonds This site shows that some ancient questions about "things going wrong" in our lives have surprisingly simple answers in modern basic chemistry (even things happening to us which cause that painful cry of "Why me?") Still more important to one's philosophy about life, these chemical ideas can startle us into seeing how fortunate we all are: that things don't go wrong more often! We�ll talk mainly about down-to-earth chemical reactions � like burning and rusting � and the behavior of things � common solid objects of wood, metal, and bone, not about complex computer chips or programs going wrong (nor about personal relations that fall apart. Even chemistry has limits.) Simple chemical reactions often are involved in annoying or deadly happenings to us: Why? Why do we get harassed or even have our lives ruined by events like these?

91. En:Entropy - Sabayon Sep 14, 2010 entropy is the name of the Sabayon Linux binary package management system. This is the name for the complete infrastructure, http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=En:Entropy

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93. Shuffled Cards, Messy Desks, And Disorderly Dorm Rooms - Examples Of Entropy Inc Critical review of popular use of the concept of entropy, in the Journal of Chemical Education. http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/1999/Oct/abs1385.html

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94. Entropy - Welcome To Entropy entropy is a virtual machine manager for clusters. Developed by the ASCOLA research group , at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes , the entropy system acts as an http://entropy.gforge.inria.fr/

@import url("./css/maven-base.css"); @import url("./css/maven-theme.css"); @import url("./css/site.css"); Last Published: 01-16-2010 14:27 Entropy@GForge About Entropy Welcome Publications Status and Roadmap Get Entropy Download License Release notes Using Entropy How to Configuration Files Integration with Xen Integration with Ganglia ... Using as a library Project Documentation Project Information Project Reports Award "Prix de la croissance verte numerique" December 2009 SC 09 Demo ! Have a look to our consolidation demonstration SWF file: 17 November 2009 Try Entropy 1.2.0 Experimental Latest build: 29 April 2009 Latest experiments Impact of VM operations PDF file: 10 April 2009 Try Entropy 1.0 A consolidation manager Released: 19 February 2009 Welcome to Entropy Entropy is a virtual machine manager for clusters. Developed by the ASCOLA research group , at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes , the Entropy system acts as an infinite control loop, which performs a globally optimized placement according to cluster resource usage and scheduler objectives. Relying on an encapsulation of jobs into VMs, Entropy enables to implement finer scheduling policies through cluster-wide context switches: permutations between VMs present in the cluster. It results a more flexible use of cluster resources and relieve end-users of the burden of dealing with time estimates.

95. Entropy - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia entropy is the name of some different things. The word entropy came from the study of heat and energy in the period 1850 to 1900. Some very useful mathematical ideas about http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

Entropy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Entropy is the name of some different things. The word Entropy came from the study of heat and energy in the period 1850 to 1900. Some very useful mathematical ideas about probability calculations emerged from the study of entropy. These ideas are now used in Information theory, Chemistry and other areas of study. Information entropy , which is a measure of information communicated by systems that are affected by noise. Thermodynamic entropy , which is part of the science of heat energy and is a measure of how organized or disorganized energy is in a system of atoms or molecules. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If a page link brought you here, you might want to go back and fix it so that it goes directly to the correct page. Retrieved from " http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy Categories Disambiguation Thermodynamics Personal tools New features Log in / create account Namespaces Page Talk Variants Views Read Change View history Actions Search Getting around Main Page Simple start Simple talk New changes ... Give to Wikipedia Print/export Make a book Download as PDF Page for printing Toolbox What links here Related changes Special pages Permanent link ... Cite this page In other languages Boarisch Deutsch English Español ... Slovenščina This page was last changed on 12 April 2010, at 17:29.

96. Welcome To Entropysite Feb 4, 2009 Web site content explains the modern view of entropy change and the dispersal of energy in a process (at a specific temperature). http://entropysite.oxy.edu/

Notice entropysite.com is now http://entropysite.oxy.edu . Please update your links and bookmarks. Introduction what's new links older news ... acknowledgements The content of this Web site has been selected for instructors in general and physical chemistry by Dr. Frank L. Lambert, Professor Emeritus (Chemistry) of Occidental College, Los Angeles ( professional biography Introduction A Brief Introduction to the Second Law and to Entropy for Chemistry Students Energy The simplest example is the stereotypical textbook illustration of the spontaneous expansion of an ideal gas from one bulb to occupy both that bulb and an attached evacuated bulb: The initial motional/kinetic energy (and potential energy) of the molecules in the first bulb is unchanged in such an isothermal expansion process, but it becomes more widely distributed additional Entropy change is the measure of how more widely a specific quantity of molecular energy is dispersed in a process B B lnW. In this case, if the volume is constrained, instead of distributing wider , the energy is spread broader , i.e., among a larger number of options within the system.

97. Entropy - Uncyclopedia, The Content-free Encyclopedia The definition of entropy is the amount of physical disorder in a closed system of energy. To make yourself a picture of what that might be, just think about the mess in your http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Entropy

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99. Prof. Thomas Ward Lecture notes based on a course at Ohio State in 1994 by Thomas Ward in DVI and PostScript. http://www.uea.ac.uk/~h720/lecturenotes/

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