Entropy is also a measure of the uncertainty or ignorance of an observer observing the system’s macrostate and not knowing the specific microstate. Because states with higher disorder have more ...

In a famous lecture in 1959, scientist and author C P Snow spoke of a gulf of comprehension between science and the humanities, which had split into “two cultures”. Many people in each group had a ...

Entropy and information theory offer a robust quantitative framework for decoding the complexity inherent in landscape patterns. By drawing from principles in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, ...

Black holes are intriguing astronomical objects that have a gravitational pull so strong that it prevents any object and even light from escaping. While black holes have been the topic of numerous ...