Question

Can Observation change entropy?

Answer 1

I don't know whether this even makes any sense, but if 'observation' can be considered as 'recieving and reading information', can an act of observation(of a system) change (increase or decrease) its entropy?

Answer 2

For isolated systems, entropy never decreases. ... Increases in entropycorrespond to irreversible changes in a system, because some energy is expended as waste heat, limiting the amount of work a system can do. Unlike many other functions of state,entropy cannot be directly observe the sides of a righttriangle containgnin the right angle