Douglas Rushkoff

Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any Facebook friends at all? We're back where we started. The ultimate complexity is just another entropy.

American Journalist

Sean M. Carroll

The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.

American Scientist

Walter Lang

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

American Director

Vaclav Havel

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

Czechoslovakian Leader

Geoffrey West

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist's viewpoint, entropy.

British Physicist

Alan Guth

If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.

American Physicist

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Russian Novelist

Elon Musk

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

South African Businessman

Dean Kamen

American Inventor

Anton Chekhov

Russian Dramatist

Entropy increases in isolated systems where energy isn't added or lost.

Isolated Systems

High entropy means a system isn't easily returned to its prior state.

Not Reversibility

Entropy shows a system's transition from order to disorder.

Order to Disorder

Low entropy data is predictable and less secure in encryption.

Secure Encryption

Data compression techniques reduce entropy for efficiency.

Data Efficiency

In statistics, high entropy represents the unpredictability of events.

Unexpected Events

Use 'entropy' to describe situations that are spiraling out of control.

Life's Disarray

It can express feeling overwhelmed by life's complexity or unpredictability.

Emotional Overload

In metaphorical use, it suggests gradual decline in organizations or systems.

Organizational Decline

 The breaking down of these arrangements when the entire cell succumbs to entropy is what eventually results in death. This is the reason organisms can't be simply sparked back to life once they've already died. We can pump air into someone's lungs, but it won't do much good

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 whether the universe had existed for an infinite or finite time. Boltzmann’s main claim to fame was revolutionizing thermodynamics, the branch of physics that studies energy. He put forward a new interpretation of entropy, which is a measure of the disorder of a system.

The Boltzmann brain...

 information so we're learning to use our brains to find information rather than storing the information what we're altom utley battling is entry entropy is rust its aging its metabolic decay life however is anti-entropic life moves towards greater complexity and

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 such as chickens. And we know in our heart of hearts that the universe does not travel from mush to complexity. In fact, this gut instinct is reflected in one of the most fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy.

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 which says that systems will gain disorder, or entropy, over time. Systems in our universe move from order to disorder, and it is that property of the universe that defines the direction of time’s arrow. So if time is such a fundamental property,

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 Your match adds enough energy to activate the exothermic reaction of combustion, converting the high-energy combustible material in the wood to lower energy carbon dioxide and water. Entropy also increases and helps the reaction along

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 plays an important role in explaining why certain things mix well into water and others don't. Entropy basically describes the way things and energy can be arranged based on random motion. For example, think of the air in a room.

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 So imagine a monkey sitting at a keyboard. I think you might get a random jumble of letters that looks like this. Such a random jumble of letters is said to have a very high entropy. This is a physics and information theory term.

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 It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It's entropy, and it's notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around.

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 entropy this lost the meaning that it exists both materially and also it it's a semantic entropy the more the larger the things I was making the less significant they become you know few years ago I paired with