Entropy never dies. That story.

[David Morris]

To posit that there is a balance sheet somewhere that lets order form from
disorder, as if part of an equation, suggests an order to disorder.  The
stars formed from chaos, yet they still explode.  Paradox might supersede
entropy.

David Morris

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 4:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> *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."
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