Why the universe is fundamentally wired to become more disordered
In short: Understand why things naturally fall apart and why order requires a constant sacrifice of energy. This video breaks down the second law of thermodynamics, explaining how entropy dictates the flow of time and the behavior of all physical systems.
The second law of thermodynamics describes a universe where systems naturally move toward states of greater disorder. Scientists measure this disorder as entropy, which represents the number of possible microstates available to a system for every macrostate.
While it may seem that order can be created locally—such as organizing a room—the video explains that this only happens by increasing the entropy of the surrounding environment even more. Because of these interactions, the net entropy of the universe is always increasing over time.
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