The Second Law of Thermodynamics
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
The business of order to disorder, things become more disordered, seems to be contradicted by evolution. So how is this second law of thermodynamics, things getting worse, things becoming wearing out at things, or disorder, and where can I monitor it? You are still looking at a very small system there, where you are looking at life. And so if we are looking at something becoming more complex in this particular part of the system over here, that doesn't necessarily mean that it's not echoed by an increase in disorder somewhere else. They are connected, the interesting things happen, what you are called in complexity. Interesting things happen where there is a flow of energy, and so you have
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