AJ2884 on Nostr: I'm going to be a bit pedantic since, to the degree that this receives widespread ...
I'm going to be a bit pedantic since, to the degree that this receives widespread attention, people will be pedantic and point out that Fahrenheit is a relative scale so we should be working in Kelvin or Rankine.
Why are we putting a hard cap on maximum temperature? Since temperature's proportionate to kinetic energy, temperature is only limited by the available energy. Perhaps there's a fact of the matter regarding how much energy there is in the universe, but if the universe is infinite then even that goes out the window. And even from there, my understanding is that in an expanding universe, energy need not be conserved. So again, it seems like there could at least theoretically be arbitrarily large temperatures.
That said, it sounds like you've just reinvented the percentage, which we already use for microwave power settings, and Bitcoin supply.
Now, what exactly do you mean when you say entropy? People seem to generally colloquially mean something like disorder or change when they use it, but to the degree that people are still transacting on the Bitcoin network even once the subsidy reaches zero, they will constitute the majority of the change, not the fees, so I'm assuming you mean something different. But I suppose that assumes that the change you care about pertains to utxo balances, so I guess I also need to ask exactly what change you're talking about 🙂
Why are we putting a hard cap on maximum temperature? Since temperature's proportionate to kinetic energy, temperature is only limited by the available energy. Perhaps there's a fact of the matter regarding how much energy there is in the universe, but if the universe is infinite then even that goes out the window. And even from there, my understanding is that in an expanding universe, energy need not be conserved. So again, it seems like there could at least theoretically be arbitrarily large temperatures.
That said, it sounds like you've just reinvented the percentage, which we already use for microwave power settings, and Bitcoin supply.
Now, what exactly do you mean when you say entropy? People seem to generally colloquially mean something like disorder or change when they use it, but to the degree that people are still transacting on the Bitcoin network even once the subsidy reaches zero, they will constitute the majority of the change, not the fees, so I'm assuming you mean something different. But I suppose that assumes that the change you care about pertains to utxo balances, so I guess I also need to ask exactly what change you're talking about 🙂