How long should you wait? — on

"The really unusual day would be one where nothing unusual happens." -Persi Diaconis This quote above is from the very ...

Stosszahlansatz — on

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable" -Mark Twain All theories of microscopic physics are g...

Turing Patterns — on

There are times that you discover that someone has actually named the phenomenon you have been thinking about for a significant amo...

Definition of well defined — on

This is not a post on mathematics, statistical physics, nor evolutionary biology. So there won't be any equations or theorems in...

Microscopic theory of Diffusion — on

I have recently encountered with the great lecture series given by Prof. V. Balakrishnan , who is a theoretical physicist and a dist...

Errata for the second law : Part II — on

Let me quickly remind what I was trying to point out in the previous post on the second law . "Second law doesn't say that...

Errata for entropy — on

Before diving into the second part of the previous post , I thought it might be useful to fix the misconception about entropy first....

Errata for the second law : Part I — on

I am sure that many of you are familiar with the definition of the second law of thermodynamics. After all, it is recklessl...