What entropy consistently measures is ignorance: a lack of knowledge about the motion of particles, the next digit in a string of code, or the exact state of a quantum system. “Despite the fact that ...

«Our study shows that in both cases, entropy is considered to be a type of lack of knowledge», says Renner. The new paper in Nature builds on work published earlier in the New Journal of Physics ...

One such method on the horizon in 1982 was ‘maximum entropy ... armed with this knowledge, but they had to be backed up with extensive simulations starting with a known image, throwing ...

But defining it that way doesn't really say what entropy is—and Boltzmann wanted to know more. The 19th century saw scientists unifying different aspects of human knowledge: joining ...