Imagine you’re standing in front of a closed door. Behind it is a teenager’s bedroom, and your task is to rate how messy it is on a scale of 1 to 10. But here’s the twist: you can’t open the door – ...

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at ...

The universe is getting more disordered, entropy is growing -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. But according to quantum theory, entropy should actually stay the same. Scientists took a ...

Names can be both liberating and confining. When mankind gives something a name, we mark it with a label that helps us discuss our shared environment and experience. At the same time, a label can ...

Abstract: The aim of our paper is make survey of conditional entropy of DNA and compare it to conditional entropy of human languages. We have not been able to prove the hypothesis that conditional ...

I recently led a webinar on the laws of thermodynamics, which got me thinking: A business is very much a closed system, such as a universe. Therefore, if entropy is always increasing in a closed ...

There is no generally accepted definition for conditional Tsallis entropy. The standard definition of (unconditional) Tsallis entropy depends on a parameter α that converges to the Shannon entropy as ...

Everything changes and some of us don’t always like that. But according to one view, the entropy of the universe, and of nature in general (that is the degree of disorder or randomness in a system) ...

1 Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Inserm U1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, Bron, France 2 Laboratory of Synaptic Imaging, Department of Clinical and Experimental ...

Keeping time accurately comes with a price. The maximum accuracy of a clock is directly related to how much disorder, or entropy, it creates every time it ticks. Natalia Ares at the University of ...