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The Curious Zombie’s Guide to Entropy: The strange property that may hold the key to the ultimate fate of the universe
Did you ever wonder what entropy is?
You might have heard that it's some kind of inescapable and ever-increasing disorder that's all around us in the universe.
Ask a hundred different people what they think entropy is and you’ll probably get a hundred different answers. The concept of entropy presents us with something of a paradox. How is it that something that appears to be one of the most fundamental features of our physical world, could also be so mysterious, misunderstood, and difficult to describe?
So what exactly is entropy?
This book aims to answer that question in an intuitive and largely non-mathematical way - and in doing so, to demonstrate just how fundamental entropy is to our understanding of the physical world. The purpose of this book is not to give you the kind of comprehensive, formal description of entropy that you might get from a university physics course, but rather a more visual, intuitive understanding of what entropy is, how it works, and why it is so central to the great, unfolding process that is our universe.
You might have heard that it's some kind of inescapable and ever-increasing disorder that's all around us in the universe.
Ask a hundred different people what they think entropy is and you’ll probably get a hundred different answers. The concept of entropy presents us with something of a paradox. How is it that something that appears to be one of the most fundamental features of our physical world, could also be so mysterious, misunderstood, and difficult to describe?
So what exactly is entropy?
This book aims to answer that question in an intuitive and largely non-mathematical way - and in doing so, to demonstrate just how fundamental entropy is to our understanding of the physical world. The purpose of this book is not to give you the kind of comprehensive, formal description of entropy that you might get from a university physics course, but rather a more visual, intuitive understanding of what entropy is, how it works, and why it is so central to the great, unfolding process that is our universe.
142 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 2, 2023
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