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Interesting paradox, how life seems to get more organized and contradict the 2nd law of thermodynamics. But of course like the article mentions, the 2nd law dea
by QuadrupleA 7y ago
Interesting paradox, how life seems to get more organized and contradict the 2nd law of thermodynamics. But of course like the article mentions, the 2nd law deals with closed systems and life on earth is an open system with a constant input of stupendous amounts of energy from the nuclear fusion furnace we orbit. A human in a closed system (airtight box?) would entrop-ize pretty quickly.
- ThemalSpan 7y agoIlya Prigogine won a Nobel prize working on that very issue! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipative_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissipative_system
- coderthrow 7y agohttps://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/prigogine-lecture.pdf https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2018/06/prigogine-lecture...
- sooheon 7y agoI don't think I can ever forget the first time I read this short story by Ted Chiang on that topic: http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/ http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/exhalation/
- saagarjha 7y agoA human in a closed system would probably reduce their rate of entropy increase fairly quickly ;)