In thermodynamic, positive entropy is a loose term defined in 1943 by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger to describe, in simple terms, something that a living organism produces, during every process, event, or happening, in that part of the world where it is going on. [1] According to the effects of "positive entropy", in Schrödinger's view, an organism increases its entropy (or produces positive entropy), in accordance with the second law of thermodynamics, as it lives, and thus tends to approach, what Schrödinger calls, "the dangerous state of maximum entropy, which is death."
Difficulties
The essential problem with the term positive entropy is that Schrödinger culls it from Ludwig Boltzmann's statistical thermodynamics of ideal gas phase particles in which the atoms and molecules stop moving or reach a constant state of external parameter changes, such as in pressure, temperature, and volume, when equilibrium is reached. At this point in the system, the measure of the heat transfered to internal work energy, used as the molecules of the system act on each other irreversibly, reaches its highest positive value, mathematically. In human terms, equilibrium means that the system of human molecules stop going spontaneously on their own in their human chemical reactions, e.g. when an intimate relationship stops working, which is called "relationship equilibrium" (a dead relationship). [2]
See also
● Negative entropy
References
1. Schrödinger, Erwin. (1944). What is Life? (ch. 6 “Order, Disorder, and Entropy). pgs. 67-75 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2. (a) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume One), ("dead relationships", pg. xviii). (preview). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
(b) Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), ("dead relationships", pg. 452). (preview). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
