[SGVLUG] Help spread the word

Dustin Laurence dustin at laurences.net
Thu Jun 21 10:55:19 PDT 2007


On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 09:45:40AM -0700, Don Gibbs wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > Nature abhors a vacuum
> <snip>
> 
> Is this really true?  Seems to me this is a quaint anachronism since 
> only a tiny, tiny part of the universe is not a vacuum.

OK, technically nature abhors negentropy.  In ordinary Earth conditions,
it abhors vacuum because it implies less entropy (greater negentropy)
than would exist if there were no vacuum.

In space, there isn't enough matter to fill the vacuum, but nature
continues on maximizing entropy (minimizing negentropy) as best it can.

Dustin, "count the microstates, guys, count the microstates"

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