Not as a definition. But many explanations which use “entropy” could also use “disorder” without becoming overtly incoherent or contradicting accounts given by most others; which was the requirement of #5. Of those explanations which use “entropy” in a more technical sense, many could go with my second example; and the rest could use something more specific, like an information-theoretic epression, or a physical prediction.
But many explanations which use “entropy” could also use “disorder” without becoming overtly incoherent or contradicting accounts given by most others; which was the requirement of #5.
That works for physical entropy. For the sense of entropy used in information theory, a better substitution would be uncertainty.
Not as a definition. But many explanations which use “entropy” could also use “disorder” without becoming overtly incoherent or contradicting accounts given by most others; which was the requirement of #5. Of those explanations which use “entropy” in a more technical sense, many could go with my second example; and the rest could use something more specific, like an information-theoretic epression, or a physical prediction.
That works for physical entropy. For the sense of entropy used in information theory, a better substitution would be uncertainty.