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AMA | October 2022
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Entropy Is a Number That You Calculate
There is for any given system, you know, there's different systems of course, but a given system in a given coarse-graining is just at high entropy or low entropy. For the rest of your question, I'm not quite sure where that question intersects with the ability to build a tricorder that would scan our entropy. What I think is true is that there are macro states, right? So there's things we can measure.
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