Something Faster than the Speed of Light
Could entropy be the one thing faster than the speed of light?
It’s always already happening.
Calling all scientists. Please comment on this idle speculation.
Could entropy be the one thing faster than the speed of light?
It’s always already happening.
Calling all scientists. Please comment on this idle speculation.
5 thoughts on “Something Faster than the Speed of Light”
Entropy is a statistical measure of the disorder in a physical system consisting of many components or particles. As such, it is not a material object than can move some distance during some time interval. It is therefore meaningless to compare the rate of change of entropy to the speed of light. Entropy changes in a fractional value per unit time, say some percentage per second (depending on the system being measured), whereas light moves a distance per unit time, approximately 3×10000 kilometers per second.
Well, ok, I know that entropy is not a thing in itself.
But space/time is an intertwined sort of fabric, isn’t it?
Would there be any translation from one to the other at all? Perhaps with energy as a mediating unit?
(I’m not a scientist, just a humanities nerd. Be patient with me on this. If I had been more inspired by science, I would have been much better off.)
Virus, I think they are incomparable, as Scooper said.
Regarding going faster than the speed of light two things come to mind. One, I think the universe itself (not the stuff in it) is still expanding slightly faster than the speed of light. Second, in quantum mechanics two entangled objects apparently are linked in a faster than light connection. What happens to one object also instantaneously impacts the other. See the EPR Paradox or Bell’s inequality
My hubby said that he would actually like to see someone in quantum physics respond to this question, even if it is to point out of the impossibility of the proposition. Looks like you might be on a similar wavelength (or is it a particle?) – grinning.