🚀 go-pugleaf

On Apr 4, 11:40 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/FAREWELL-ENTROPY-Statistical-Thermodynamics-Information/dp/9812707069
> A FAREWELL TO ENTROPY: Statistical Thermodynamics Based on
> Information. By Arieh Ben-Naim
> "Product Description: The principal message of this book is that
> thermodynamics and statistical mechanics will benefit from replacing
> the unfortunate, misleading and mysterious term entropy with a more
> familiar, meaningful and appropriate term such as information, missing
> information or uncertainty. This replacement would facilitate the
> interpretation of the driving force of many processes in terms of
> informational changes and dispel the mystery that has always
> enshrouded entropy."
>
> An alternative Product Description: The principal message of this book
> is that hypnotists in Einstein criminal cult (in the present context
> "Clausius criminal cult" would be more appropriate) will benefit from
> replacing the misleading and mysterious term entropy with a more
> familiar, even trivial but irrelevant term such as information,
> missing information or uncertainty. This replacement would
> additionally confuse the interpretation of of many processes and
> superpose another mystery on the original mystery that has always
> enshrouded entropy.

Since hypnotists in Clausius cult cannot sell their dead science
anymore, they want to replace it. An analogous situation: if you do
not believe that the dead parrot you have purchased is just pining for
the fjords, it will be replaced and you will be given a slug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

Pentcho Valev