The Relationship Between Entropy and Time

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Biological open dissipative systems cannot be considered localized regions in space time where the arrow of time seemingly reverses its direction. Biological organisms are very heavily reliant on the fact that entropy is increasing all around them. Mike Meyer says, how sympathetic are you to the victims of the ocean gates of merciful disaster given the high amount of risk that the passengers assumed? Well, I'm very sympathetic. I am not on board with the people who are sort of cheering these people who are risk takers and had too much money that they knew what to do with. And so they ended up in a disaster.

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