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Re: tangent off of Order being born from disorder?



On Tue, 20 May 1997, Leigh Palmer wrote:

Of course the entropy of the universe does increase with time. That
observation is called the second law of thermodynamics, and entropy is
sometimes poetically referred to as "time's arrow". The observation that

Of course other mathematically equivalent forms of the second law likewise
show up the direction of time. For example, an ideal purely mechanical
system is driven towards minimum energy rather than maximum entropy. So
if we have movie of a waterfall (not ideal I know) we can can tell if it
is being run forward or backward.

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