It’s called entropy because somebody told Shannon that the same mathematical quantity already existed in thermodynamics, when the question what to call it came up.
I don’t know that there’s any other operational connection.
Like there’s no entropy gradient giving the arrow of time, or system-wide increase.
It’s called entropy because somebody told Shannon that the same mathematical quantity already existed in thermodynamics, when the question what to call it came up.
I don’t know that there’s any other operational connection.
Like there’s no entropy gradient giving the arrow of time, or system-wide increase.