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"there is 10 million times more entropy in that radiation [cosmic microwave radiation] than there is in all of the mass of the universe" https://news.berkeley.
by zone411 4y ago
"there is 10 million times more entropy in that radiation [cosmic microwave radiation] than there is in all of the mass of the universe"
https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/09/20/new-book-links-flow-of-time-with-big-bang/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2016/09/20/new-book-links-flow-of-...
- TeMPOraL 4y agoBut then, this is just entropy from a one-off event long ago. Meanwhile, life is an entropy producing reaction with a strong exponential factor. To butcher an insightful quote by (IIRC) Hamming, any positive slope will eventually make up for y-intercept of a constant function.
- zone411 4y agoIt underlines the idea that the entropy-time connection is pretty shaky though.