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Episode 6: Thermodynamics

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics

All life on earth is decreasing its entropy. So increasing its order. And it's able to do so because of a massive free lunch of energy coming from the sun. All of the extra order that you see on earth comes from a much larger decrease in order or increase in entropy that occurs inside the sun all the time. That is how life is possible in spite of the second law of thermodynamics.

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