AcapellaScience produced this video music performance, “Entropic Time”, which bears the accurate description “backwards Billy Joel parody”: Thanks to @drawnonglass for bringing this to our attention, in harmonious recognition that the theme of the 2016 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will be TIME.)
Tag: entropy
“… yet the world it describes is a mess”
“Physics may aim for simplicity, yet the world it describes is a mess.” That’s the start of John Cartwright’s article, “Roll Over, Bolzmann,” in the magazine Physics World. It tells the story of Tsallis entropy: Our definition of entropy is expressed by one of the most famous formulae in physics, and dates back over a century […]
Professor Moriarty’s Blunt, Sharp Treatise on Coercion
In this video, Professor Moriarty expresses regrets — six minutes and fifty seconds of regrets — for some of his past actions, especially as they pertain to entropy: Professor Moriarty is now a professor of physics at the University of Nottingham. His Blunt, Sharp treatise on coercion enjoyed a European vogue: BLUNT, M.O., MARTIN, C.P., […]
Flanders, Swann, and Thermodynamics
Behold the story of thermodynamics, as sung by Flanders and Swann (and later illustrated by others): (Thanks to investigator David Koopman for bringing this to our attention.)