entropy

• Thankfully, because, even with the cold helping preservation, entropy is our real enemy. —  Hamilton, Peter F. - [Void 01] - The Dreaming Void
• In fact it's been suggested that thermodynamic entropy is a special case of information entropy. —  AnalogSFF,April2008
• I think that a couple of theories/concepts from the nineteenth century--entropy and evolution--should be added: They seem to me to have been at least as important in their influence on literature as the Newtonian clock or the theory of relativity. —  Omni: November 1993
• Understanding more about chaos has given literary critics new and more sophisticated ways to talk about texts like Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Stanislaw Lem's His Master's Voice, both texts that defeat linear modes of reading and interpretation Another area in which chaos has changed how literature is read is dissipative structures--entropy-producing systems that create greater order internally by producing greater disorder in their environments. —  Omni: November 1993
• The relationship between her and the curl of beet she is contemplating is entirely without entropy, a universe which has long since ceased to expand. —  FSFApril2005

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