What is entropy?

The foundations of entropy and its significance in the thermodynamic description of the macroscopic world are discussed in the framework of the modern theory of nonequilibrium systems. Entropy production in open systems as the source for the formation of "dissipative" spatio-temporal structures is a fundamental principle in physics, chemistry, biology, and related fields of science. The article describes how entropy is connected with evolution, which requires irreversibility, probability, and coherence for producing new ordered phenomena; it also examines the role of entropy in the context of recent cosmological models. Introduction ~

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