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Thomas Lin
@7homaslin.com

Fascinating exploration of entropy as a measure of ignorance. Researchers are attempting to capitalize on the apparent subjectivity of that ignorance. By @zacksavitsky.bsky.social with terrific interactive graphics by Jonas Parnow and @markabelan.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

quantamagazine.orgWhat Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta MagazineExactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...

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Thomas Lin
@7homaslin.com

Perhaps as wrongheaded as Einstein’s search for hidden variables, but I can’t help wonder how low that subjectivity can be reduced down to the fundamental limit of the uncertainty principle.