irreversibility
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Entropy is a measure of irreversibility and disorder and is central in thermodynamics.
From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2024
This is distinct from how the term is often used, namely with the idea that it involves on a global scale "irreversibility, which has to do with the impossibility of returning to its previous state."
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024
This irreversibility, first appreciated by physicist David Finkelstein in 1958, was the earliest inkling of the black hole information paradox—“paradox” because how could reversible laws have irreversible effects?
From Scientific American • Aug. 20, 2022
Consider that dissipative mechanisms are one cause of irreversibility.
From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015
This irreversibility is due to the work required to evolve bubbles of gas at the surface of bright platinum plates.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
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