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: Received: 8 April 2024 / Approved: 9 April 2024 / Online: 9 April 2024 (11:54:29 CEST)
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: Received: 11 April 2024 / Approved: 12 April 2024 / Online: 12 April 2024 (14:38:00 CEST)
Version 3
: Received: 25 April 2024 / Approved: 25 April 2024 / Online: 26 April 2024 (07:54:58 CEST)
How to cite:
Chen, J.; Chen, J. Systematically Disproving Two Widely Accepted Notions Regarding Entropy. Preprints2024, 2024040655. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0655.v3
Chen, J.; Chen, J. Systematically Disproving Two Widely Accepted Notions Regarding Entropy. Preprints 2024, 2024040655. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0655.v3
Chen, J.; Chen, J. Systematically Disproving Two Widely Accepted Notions Regarding Entropy. Preprints2024, 2024040655. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0655.v3
APA Style
Chen, J., & Chen, J. (2024). Systematically Disproving Two Widely Accepted Notions Regarding Entropy. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0655.v3
Chicago/Turabian Style
Chen, J. and Ji-Wang Chen. 2024 "Systematically Disproving Two Widely Accepted Notions Regarding Entropy" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0655.v3
Abstract
This article presents multiple novel and compelling arguments to systematically disprove two widely accepted notions: one is that entropy is a measure of disorder, and the other is Schrödinger's notion of negative entropy (negentropy). These two notions have been cited hundreds of times annually in scientific literature for decades. To mathematically describe the second law of thermodynamics, the concept of entropy was created and defined in the 1860s as heat energy divided by thermodynamic temperature, and the entropy of an object increases when it absorbs heat. This is the uncontroversial and fundamental nature of entropy, which is pivotal to current thermodynamics and from which multiple facts are deduced. These facts consistently disprove the above two notions. Some biological facts, such as the one that life orderliness is encoded and provided by inherited genes rather than entropy decline, can also disprove Schrödinger's negentropy notion. Moreover, this article further clarifies the reasoning errors of the two notions. It also shows that the tendency of many natural or social systems to become more disordered over time does not result from the second law of thermodynamics.
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