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"eventually" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Our sun will last another 5 billion years, and the heat death is something like 100 trillion years away.
by CodesInChaos 3y ago
"eventually" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Our sun will last another 5 billion years, and the heat death is something like 100 trillion years away.
- compumike 3y agoSure :) Though a lot of practical thermal-related causes of electronics failure seem to operate on timescales of years to decades, like electromigration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration or even just cooling fan bearing failure. And I don’t think it would be a huge stretch to point to electromigration as a case of diffusion, a natural entropy increasing process, re-randomizing the arrangement of atoms within a transistor (and therefore making it fail eventually).