It seems nonsensical to me as chaos or disorder or what whatever you want to call it are entirely subjective and abstract concepts. Are subjective terms just incorrectly used to describe something that is objective? As it is sometimes the case? Maybe I am just missing something
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You're right; you are missing something.
shareAre subjective terms just incorrectly used to describe something that is objective? I wouldn't call it "incorrectly" used. What scientists do is use existing words to form the monikers applied to empirical phenomena. Scientists would hijack the word "god" if the were any evidence of significant parts of the universe created by a conscious or formerly-conscious being. But as a word, "god" can refer to many other things too, all having the attribute of "higher power" (to humanity) as a common denominator. Right now, there is no cause to use such a word. The designers, developers, manipulators and repairers of computer systems, use it to refer to mechanism that afford a given user or program near absolute control of all software activity within a system. Old things like "notepads", "easels", "daemons", "files", "folders", "directories", "cabinets", "libraries", "engines", "sockets", "channels", "ports", "proxies" and "mail" also have cyber variant. We can do whatever we like with words (and names), to an extent.
Anyway, the words "chaos" and "disorder" don't actually have to be used to explain thermodynamics law II. The people who first identified the law used what concepts and thereby words were available to them to explain a more specific concept. These people weren't quite like physicians, coroners, biologists and chemists, in the sense of borrowing Greek or Latin to construct monikers for things.
The second law of thermodynamics is a general principle which places constraints upon the direction of heat transfer in closed system
terms: order, disorder and entropy are then added because it works not only with heat but with any kind of change. entropy is actually Greek word and means change. so in short the law dictates the direction of change
for example: when you have two rooms, first filled with hot air and second filled with cold air. the law tells you what will happen when you open the door between them. the temperature will always even up in both rooms and never the opposite
actually some scientists theorized that opposite can also happen(law can be broken). if you open door very fast and close it, one room will get even more hot and other even more cold. because hot air molecules move at higher speeds and they can manage to get through the door until it closes but not cold ones. and these kind of conditions can occur in real world. so this theory opens doors to applications such as remote cooling