For example, imagine you have an electron, and you decide to measure its spin (which can be up or down). If you already know the spin is 100% up, the Shannon entropy is zero—we learn nothing new ...

I admit, my examples of metaphoric entropy thus far seem entirely trivial, especially in light of the precarious position that our country recently found itself in.

I show how MEP unifies different plant optimization theories that have been proposed previously on the basis of ad hoc measures of individual fitness—the different objective functions of these ...

A pendulum is an example of entropy, with roughly equal energy moving from one side to another. Another example of entropy is an ice cube melting in a glass of water in a warm room.

New research shows that the second law of thermodynamics, which states entropy increases over time, also applies to closed quantum systems.