Help me Understand Boltzmann's entropy formula: S = k log W? [more inside]
posted by complience on Jul 30, 2009 - 16 answers

Can the Universe hold all of mathematics? [more inside]
posted by DU on Jun 23, 2009 - 107 answers

ThermodynamicsFilter: Assume I have a perfectly insulated room, a battery with a fixed amount of power, and an air-conditioning/heating unit..... [more inside]
posted by zachawry on Feb 23, 2009 - 26 answers

Need help finding a book I read as a teenager. It involved teens with weird powers including the power to reverse entropy. [more inside]
posted by Axle on Jul 21, 2008 - 2 answers

Organization Filter: How do you organize a bunch of definitely weird and sometimes incredibly disparate STUFF? [more inside]
posted by Medieval Maven on May 12, 2008 - 6 answers

The 2nd law of thermodynamics (entropy theory) has been applied to information theory, economics, natural selection and human behaviour. How do I relate it to software projects? [more inside]
posted by gttommy on May 10, 2008 - 14 answers

Here in sunny Florida, my two large dogs tend to wear my back lawn down to the dirt. Is there a grass that recovers easily? [more inside]
posted by cmiller on Feb 20, 2008 - 6 answers

ScienceFilter: Creationists, crystals, and thermodynamics. [more inside]
posted by XMLicious on Feb 6, 2008 - 19 answers

Any information theorists out there? How do I mesure the Information content/Entropy of the output of a hash algorithm? [more inside]
posted by delmoi on Jun 5, 2005 - 26 answers

AskMe physicists: Assuming there were any, where did the entropy from previous universes go? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by vraxoin on Feb 24, 2004 - 13 answers