Entropy never dies. That story.

[Mark Kohut]

*love the line phrase: "contraptions that squeeze out the disorder that is
locked inside of matter"*

*From an interview with Somebody Greene, physicist with a new book.
Guardian interview. *

*"In your book, you talk about the rising disorder – the increasing entropy
– of the universe, and how that shapes its future. If the universe is
becoming more and more disordered, why do stars, planets and people form? "*
"This is absolutely fundamental. The beauty of the second law of
thermodynamics is that while it stipulates that the overall amount of
disorder has to increase, little pockets of order can form so long as, in
the process, they create enough disorder in the surrounding environment to
compensate. For stars and planets, we can establish that the formation
process discards enough waste and disorder to the surrounding environment
that the overall disorder goes up. Indeed, we humans are contraptions that
squeeze out the disorder that is locked inside of matter. We eat things, we
breathe, and when we metabolise all that we take in, we use it to create
our internal order, to grow bigger, stronger and so forth, but in the
process we release enough heat and waste so that the overall disorder
balance sheet is totally in the direction of disorder."