It Ain’t Necessarily So: Ludwig Boltzmann’s Darwinian Notion of Entropy
Ludwig Boltzmann’s move in his seminal paper of 1877, introducing a statistical understanding of entropy, was a watershed moment in the history of physics. The work not only introduced quantization and provided a new understanding of entropy, it challenged the understanding of what a law of nature c...
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MDPI AG
2024-03-01
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Series: | Entropy |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/3/238 |