Is there an Antonym for Entropy?

Bomzaway · June 20, 2005, 3:40pm

I’m guessing there isn’t one word that can be considered THE opposite of the word entropy, but if you had to choose, what would make the most sense?

Order? Complexity?

Reeder · June 20, 2005, 3:53pm

extropy

Squink · June 20, 2005, 3:54pm

MonkeyMensch · June 20, 2005, 3:55pm

Anal retentiveness.

vibrotronica · June 20, 2005, 4:03pm

Order?

Folly · June 20, 2005, 4:21pm

ectropy

…but I prefer life .

ratatoskK · June 20, 2005, 5:06pm

Jake · June 20, 2005, 11:15pm

disorientated?
Cooling?
Are there “gaps” in entrophy? Litttle pockets that allow things like us to develop?

John_Mace · June 20, 2005, 11:18pm

Give a man a fish…

Strinka · June 20, 2005, 11:44pm

Weird, I was just thinking about this yesterday.

The best I came up with was Green Lantern.

JCorre · June 20, 2005, 11:46pm

Entropy isn’t what it used to be.

ftg · June 21, 2005, 2:53am

In Algorithmic Information Theory, we call it …

Information.