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Permanut

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2. That is truly mind blowing .

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2023, 11:06 PM

Dec 2023

Hawking and Bekenstein had some fascinating ideas about entropy on the large scale, e.g., black holes. Del Maestro from U of Vermont has extrapolated to the atomic scale. As you say, this could be a very long discussion

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I have to say that my mind was blown by a book this weekend. [View all] NNadir Dec 2023 OP

Sounds like a powerful book. byronius Dec 2023 #1

That is truly mind blowing . Permanut Dec 2023 #2

Thanks for the reference to Del Maestro erronis Dec 2023 #6

Fascinating! FM123 Dec 2023 #3

Did you really read it, or... LudwigPastorius Dec 2023 #4

Looks great and dense. But at $137.00 I'll see if a library has a copy.... n/t erronis Dec 2023 #5

Hmm, was looking for background but got lost immediately Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #7

It's all about counting - a physicist's take caraher Dec 2023 #9

You are a good teacher! Thank you Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #11

In the mid twentieth century those same concepts were applied to electrical signals... hunter Dec 2023 #8

It's not unusual for "named" equations to take forms alien to the honoree caraher Dec 2023 #10