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> Yes but what about the second law of thermodynamics. I mean the law of entropy. […] still it breaks with us being here. Of course! I mean, entropy can decrea
by chrisoverzero 4y ago
> Yes but what about the second law of thermodynamics. I mean the law of entropy. […] still it breaks with us being here.
Of course! I mean, entropy can decrease locally – say, over the entire planet – but that would require some kind of… like, unimaginably large, distant fusion reactor blasting Earth with energy for billions of years.
- deltathreetwo 4y agoEntropy is a consequence of probability. Which means that it can actually decrease without an energy input. There's just a very low probability of it happening but it CAN happen. It's a misnomer to call those things laws of thermodynamics. They are not axiomatic. There's a deeper intuition going on here that increasing entropy is just a logical consequence of probability being true.