Entropy, Extropy and the Physical Driver of Irreversibility

We point out that the fundamental irreversibility of Nature requires the introduction of a suitable measure for the distance from equilibrium. We show that entropy, which is widely held to be such a measure, suffers from the problem that it does not have a physical meaning, since it is introduced on...

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Main Author: Attila Grandpierre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Croatian Interdisciplinary Society 2012-06-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems
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Online Access:http://indecs.eu/2012/indecs2012-pp73-79.pdf