Entropy (zaned out...!!)

[petrushka.googol]

I have made some earlier posts on entropy on this site but I find this aspect of physics very daunting and a tad intimidating (if i could put it that way).

How could we interpret entropy to :-

a)Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

b)Success and Failure in everyday life (and migraine headaches as an extension...!!)

Here's how :

Think of an imaginary measuring tool that iteratively scans a sub-space for a photon.

As we zero in on the co-ordinates of an elusive photon, we require more iterative sub-space scans (much like the scanning lines on a TV).

Programmatically it is like a loop from 1 to N where N is very large (to increase accuracy of measurement). As N increases so does the expenditure of energy and the entropy of the subsystem.

We can apply this principle to the notion of success. Success is mentally scanning a myriad of possibilities to zero in on one or two promising candidates. (much llike a heruristic search).

The brain becomes increasingly strained with the expectation of perfectionism that invariably manifests itself as a migraine headache. (migraine is said to affect perfectionists mostly women.).

So ths guiding principle of entropy is Universal from the quantum length to scales as large as parsecs. (cosmic).

This could be called "Universal axiom of entropic behavior of systems."

[John Cuthber]

Well, apart from any other problems, we know what causes migraines- it's a glitch in the blood supply in the brain.

The higher incidence in women is probably due to hormonal factors (one bit of supporting evidence is that, in children, migraines are more common in boys than in girls).

 

And, on the whole, your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with entropy.

And, you can't scan space for a photon because the photon is moving at c.

[petrushka.googol]

Well, apart from any other problems, we know what causes migraines- it's a glitch in the blood supply in the brain.

The higher incidence in women is probably due to hormonal factors (one bit of supporting evidence is that, in children, migraines are more common in boys than in girls).

 

And, on the whole, your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with entropy.

And, you can't scan space for a photon because the photon is moving at c.

 

To estimate the location of a photon we need some finite spatial reference as the possible loci of the target photon on which a beam of incident photons may be targeted with the objective of finding it. When i said scan, i visualized an imaginary "tractor beam" that helps the user locate the particle in question...

[John Cuthber]

 

To estimate the location of a photon we need some finite spatial reference as the possible loci of the target photon on which a beam of incident photons may be targeted with the objective of finding it. When i said scan, i visualized an imaginary "tractor beam" that helps the user locate the particle in question...

With your "imaginary tractor beam" you can do whatever you like- in your imagination.

But it has nothing to do with science.