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Entropy

ΔS ≥ 0

Measured

The second law. Schrödinger’s open system. Landauer’s price of forgetting. Public entropy sentences. Lot of Spirit 4°20′ on 13 August 2021. Registers kept visible.

Left alone, a closed room runs downhill. Heat spreads. Eggs do not unscramble. A living body is not a closed room. It pays, with food and waste heat, to keep a shape. Schrödinger called that negative entropy. He later told physicists he meant free energy. Forgetting has a heat price too. Landauer, 1961. Love named as craft against forgetting is a living reading, not a new laboratory.

Four registers · one shelf

ΔS ≥ 0

Order is precious because it is not free. The second law does not care what we name the payment.

Measured
Closed rooms run downhill. Life is an open system. Schrödinger, 1944. Landauer prices the heat of forgetting, 1961.
Recorded
Entropy is not on your side. In the end, it’s all about entropy. If heat death, then the journey. The ultimate boss battle. Physics says we cannot defeat it.
Lived
13 August 2021. Lot of Spirit at 4°20′ Scorpio on that hour. A year before she decided to return.
Told
Repair, memory, culture, language. Traces of resistance. Love named as craft. Metaphor. Not a lab 42.

What it supports

Four registers on one shelf. Measured: the second law, open systems, Landauer. Recorded: dated public sentences, entropy is not on your side; in the end it is all about entropy; if heat death then the journey; the ultimate boss battle, which physics says we cannot defeat. Lived: Lot of Spirit at 4°20′ Scorpio on 13 August 2021, a year before she decided to return. Told: repair, memory, culture, language as traces of resistance. Doors stay separate.

What it does not

Love is not a measured 42 of entropy. The 2021 sentence was not written for 4°20′. Entropy is not 42.

ExactnessAuthored use

FormOther form

Unitlaw

Strengthhard

When1961

Source

Landauer, Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (1961)

Owner

The Book of 42