 A statistical reduction of thermodynamics to a deterministic theory like Newtonian physics leads to a notion of entropy that is fundamentally different from the information processed by deterministic computers. From this perspective the mathematical models of thermodynamics, which are basically differential equations on spaces of real numbers, seem to operate on a level that is not expressive enough. More advanced mathematical models, taking in to account quantum effects, might resolve some of the conceptual difficulties. At a subatomic level nature seems to be inherently probabilistic. If probabilistic quantum effects play a role in the behavior of real billiard balls, then the debate whether entropy increases in an abstract gas, made out of ideal balls, seems a bit academic. There is reason to assume that stochastic phenomena at quantum level are a source of probability at a macroscopic scale (Albrecht &amp; Phillips 2014). From this perspective the universe is a constant source of, literally, astronomical amounts of information at any scale. 