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ENTROPY | PHYSICS

Why ‘Entropy’ Is So Special in Special Relativity?—On the Interrelational Manifestation of Our Physical Macroscopic Reality

41 min readFeb 4, 2025

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“It is about the deep fundamental significance of the invariance of the Liouville stochastic expanse and the interrelationality of maximum relevant information or entropy, dependent on interrelationables both in terms of coarse-graining and frame of reference. Entropy informs us on the manifestation of relativistic macroscopic reality under weak gravitational fields — or perhaps even farther…”

Painting by Kaulbach: Faust and Mephisto.
Painting by Kaulbach: Faust and Mephisto.

☝︎The above figure: When I think about the role of entropy in science, I always feel entropy like the devilish Mephistopheles on the side of Faust, the scientist.

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It is well known at least since the days of the melancholic Ludwig Boltzmann—historically perhaps my dearest scientific Seelenverwandte, in…

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Sam Vaseghi
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Written by Sam Vaseghi

Dr. Ing. Dipl. mult. | Engineer & Biologist | Passionate Reader & Writer | Chief Editor of The Quantastic Journal | Medium Boost Nominator

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