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the universe's one-way ticket from order to glorious, irreversible mess.
means A measure of disorder or randomness in a system, and the tendency of energy to spread out and become less usable over time.
from Coined in the mid-19th century by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, who built it from the Greek 'en-' (in, within) plus 'tropē' (a turning, transformation) — literally 'transformation-content.' He deliberately shaped it to echo 'energy,' wanting the two words to look like siblings; he liked that the Greek root suggested change, the very heart of what the concept describes.
- time's arrow
- It defines why time only runs forward
- never decreases
- Total entropy always rises in closed systems
- black holes
- They hold the most entropy in the universe
- information cost
- Erasing one bit must release heat
- heat death
- Maximum entropy means the cosmos eventually goes cold
second law of thermodynamics — physical law stating entropy in an isolated system always increases over time, proven by carnot in 1824
black hole hawking radiation — process where black holes emit radiation and lose mass, discovered by stephen hawking in 1974, increasing universal entropy