At present I write mostly in Russian: /ru/
Translations from Russian:
- Erwin Schrödinger and Negative Entropy
doi:10.20944/preprints202509.1729.v1- A critique of the metaphor of negative entropy. Entropy as disorder in the 19th century. Schrödinger: Order, disorder and entropy. Discussion: Order and disorder. Understanding chemical reactions.
- The Problem of Coordination: Temperature as a Physical Quantity
doi:10.20944/preprints202509.2341.v1- Mathematics, Physics, and Measurement. Modern Temperature Measurement. Episodes from the History of Thermometry. Helmholtz, Mach and Duhem on Measurement in Physics.
- Clausius Inequality in Philosophy and History of Physics
doi:10.20944/preprints202510.0920.v1- Critique of Uffink’s paper ‘Bluff your way in the second law of thermodynamics‘. Temperature and temperature field in 19th century physics. Continuum mechanics and Clausius Inequality. Physics and mathematics in thermodynamics.
- Reversible Processes in Classical Thermodynamics
doi:10.20944/preprints202510.1821.v1- Critique of Norton’s paper ‘The Impossible Process: Thermodynamic Reversibility‘. The formalism of thermodynamics and the conceptual model. An example of a reversible heat exchange between two bars with different temperatures.
- The Problem of Coordination: Entropy as a Physical Quantity in Classical Thermodynamics, doi:10.20944/preprints202511.0386.v1
- Internal energy and entropy as physical properties. Calorimetry. Caloric equation of state. Enthalpy and heat capacity at constant pressure. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances. What is entropy?
My book in Russian ‘Virtual World Theory‘: Neurophysiology and consciousness. The history of the virtual world theory. Where perceptions are located. What does science say?
My book translated in English ‘Understanding Entropy in Light of a Candle‘: Classical thermodynamics. Statistical mechanics. What does physics say? Physics, mathematics and the world.
For this blog – Content: Philosophy. Biology. Physics. History. Misc.
Thermodynamics
- Entropy and Miscibility Gap: Tutorial for Biologists: Simple regular solution as an example. In an adiabatically isolated system, the increase of the entropy corresponds to the formation of two phases from a homogeneous mixture.
- Thermodynamics: A Dynamical Systems Approach: A review of Haddad, Chellaboina, Nersesov. An interesting mixture of thermodynamics and system theory.
- From Boltzmann’s fluctuation hypothesis to Boltzmann’s Brain: Quotes from Huw Price ‘The Thermodynamic Arrow: Puzzles and Pseudo-Puzzles‘. Also from Sean Carroll ‘Boltzmann Anthropic Brain‘.
Posts that I recommend
- Hinshelwood, bacteria and biologists: Why biologists have ignored experiments of Hinshelwood? My thoughts and a list of papers that I have collected in search for an answer.
- DNA to represent proteins: Using van Fraassen’s approach to representation to analyze a paper – Barbieri, Is the cell a semiotic system?
- Stephen Hawking: Philosophy is Dead: My thoughts after reading ‘The Grand Design‘ by Hawking and Mlodinow.
- Two Mathematicians in a Bunker and Pi: A thought experiment to discuss whether Pi exists. Physicalism vs. Platonism.
- Simulation Hypothesis and Simulation Technology: Discussing simulation hypothesis from the viewpoint of the current simulation technology. Technology falls short of needs in Matrix.
- Quantum Microbiology: My thoughts and doubts about paper by J. T. Trevors and L. Masson.
- Perception, Feedback, and Qualia: Could bacteria perceive? Comparison with a system with feedback and a robot. Does a bacterium already has qualia?