Re: A Critical Question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl McCullough) writes:

>Lester Zick says...

>>I don't follow. What of thermo is about information?

>The modern foundation for thermodynamics is statistical mechanics.
>Statistical mechanics defines entropy in terms of information, and
>defines temperature in terms of entropy.

It is my impression that the entropy from information theory is
different from the entropy from thermodynamics.  They are analogous,
in that they satisfy the same mathematical equations.  But they are
different things.