Should that day come, one of the first inductees would undoubtedly be the astronomer and documentarian Carl Sagan -- and there’s a passage in Eric Johnson’s Anxiety and the Equation: Understanding ...

Boltzmann’s formula is not, though ... So if Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy does not do the job, you must change it so it does do the job.” For Tsallis, thermodynamics is a pillar of physics and must not be ...

Central to this field is the Boltzmann equation, a cornerstone of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics that describes the time evolution of particle distribution functions in a dilute gas.

The Boltzmann equation tells us that entropy is the ... In thermodynamic entropy, the only special arrangements of particles that change entropy are the ones that change the thermodynamic ...

which the entropy formula illuminates. As time marches forward, entropy can only increase and the past is irretrievable. So the book begins with Boltzmann’s suicide and promises to work backward from ...

To explore this model of energy dispersion—or entropy creation, since they are two sides of the same coin—he wisely chose a simple system: an ideal gas in a closed container. Boltzmann ...