microstate

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A country that has a very small population and land area.

(physics) The specific detailed microscopic configuration of a system.

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Time is... the expression of our ignorance of the full microstate. Carlo Rovelli

In information theoretic terms, the information entropy of a system is the amount of "missing" information needed to determine a microstate, given the macrostate. Source: Internet

It turns out that the correct way to do this simply results in equal-sized blocks of canonical phase space, and so a microstate in classical mechanics is an extended region in the phase space of canonical coordinates that has a particular volume. Source: Internet

San Marino is the only surviving Italian microstate. Source: Internet

Since h can be chosen arbitrarily, the notional size of a microstate is also arbitrary. Source: Internet

This postulate states that : For an isolated system with an exactly known energy and exactly known composition, the system can be found with equal probability in any microstate consistent with that knowledge. Source: Internet

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