Flunking Physics – Part 3: “How the Second Law of Thermodynamics is Changing Your Faith”

2025-01-15T13:22:43-05:00October 22nd, 2015|Musings, Uncategorized|

There is a certain direction to life. You can "see" this direction when you notice that an egg can become an omelet, but an omelet cannot become an egg; hot water can get cold but cold water cannot get hot; milk can spill but spilled milk cannot unspill; and people - you and I - are born, then we age, and then we die. We always grow older, never younger. There is a certain direction to life And it is always forward. In Physicsspeak, a low-entropy system - over time - tends to become a higher entropy system. In human language, [READ MORE]