Does Entropy Mean Less Information or More Complexity?

[dhruv.tara]

Homework Statement

I haven't studied thermodynamics and we have just a very brief use of thermo in my power plants course.

I have read that entropy always increases, universe tends to disorderly state from an orderly state. The teacher related this to probability that nature tends to go from less probable state to more probable state.

All these statements were fine.

Then they related this to the information contained within the system. I was told that nature tends to go from more information states to less information states. Things tend to lose information.

E.g. A glass -> Has information associated with it, its structure and other properties.
A broken glass -> Completely random. Not much information associated with it.

I cannot convince myself of the above. Can't we say the opposite?
A glass had much lesser information associated with it or most of the properties were redundant that given a few parameters it was possible to give a complete description of the object.
Broken glass-> Has too much information. We just can't classify or find parameters (or need way too many parameters) to describe a broken glass. (Rather than saying that its just random)

My guess is that it can have something to do with the difference between data and information, but that's only a guess...

Thanks... Any help is appreciated.

 

[256bits]

I think you might be mixing up the "information" needed to describe an object with the information the object itself does possess. Take some more time to think about the glass and the broken chards of glass and which has more structured information.