Yes, you're right... altogether a very good description. I'm a bit of a physics nerd, but I'm more interested in Computer Science, especially Information Theory. 'Entropy' is a word that is thrown around in both fields and is (I find) generally difficult to get grasp on. The creationist ideas that I.T. 'Entropy' is the same thing as Thermodynamic 'Entropy', and that both equate to the general concept of 'disorder' is particularly misleading.
For example, if we consider a bag of marbles, some glowing hot, and some freezing cold, with all varieties of temperatures represented in the same bag, the common laymen would say that this bag shows far less 'order' than an identical bag in which all of the marbles are the same luke-warm temperatur (that second bag seems more neat and orderly, wouldn't you say?) And yet, from my understanding of thermodynamics, the second bag, with uniform temperature, is the one which demonstrates the greater amount of entropy.
Can someone correct or confirm my thinking here?
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