Recent content by charlesa

Hmmmmm Misty, I think you are angry and you have every right to be. It is a frustrating time for physics. There has been very little progress recently. However I think your frustration isn't helping. Kea pointed out that the concept was mathematical, and you seemed to take this as a personal...

All very interesting. Her approach, which if I understand the article correctly introduces causality as a necessary condition, may relate to the thermodynamics/QM mismatch as well. The reason for this is that causality is intricately related to reversibility - in fact there is arguably even a...

Yes, everyone is confused. No one has successfully shown how the Schrödinger wave equation leads to the second law of thermodynamics. The Schrödinger equation predicts that the entropy change for a closed system is ALWAYS zero. People have speculated that Quantum mechanics may need to be...

Entropy in a closed system is constant. Both the Schrödinger wave equation and classical Newtonian mechanics are reversible. The conditions under which entropy increases are a source of great controversy. This is often glossed over in teaching of thermodynamics.