Entropy & Information Theory
For the last couple of months, I have spent a long time researching entropy. It would be an understatement to say that there is absolutely no law that governs our existence as the second law of thermodynamics. The second law, however, only hints towards entropy. The third law of thermodynamics defines it. I hope you are aware of what entropy is. Sparingly, this is how we define entropy: Entropy is the total number of possible arrangements of particles in a system. As per the second law, the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease. There is a striking similarity between entropy and information. If you are a computer scientist, you might know about Maxwell demon's paradox which was solved by information theory in the late 20th century. The solution claimed that the thought experiment for the paradox violated the second law of thermodynamics and hence not applicable. The paradox is still being discussed and debated even today. I am not going to talk about the paradox