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198 | Nick Lane on Powering Biology
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There Really an Entropy in the Universe?
If you mix oil and water a then you get the two phases, which form spontaneously. The overall entropy of the universe increases as sult of that separation. And if we think about cells, we see exactly the same thing. A protein falls in on itself,. So it's actually a low energy state. It releases energy as it falls in that way. And so it increases entropy. We are only here because atrophy is increasing. Like it, we should be celebrating the second law of thermo dynamics - there would be no life without it.
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