Negative entropy12/9/2023 ![]() ![]() He said, “I simply can’t allow you to go forward with this proposal. Cindy didn’t see a hint of anger or distress in his face. Gladstone looked up from Cindy’s thesis proposal and removed his glasses. Cindy retreated to the couch and sat on its edge, knees together, briefcase clutched in her arms. Gladstone teetered to his feet and gained his chair. “An atom here, a molecule there.” He coughed and slavered. And probability allows for negative entropy-” Gladstone lifted himself to a sitting position, tears streaming over his cheeks. But the senior citizen writhing on the floor wore tan Dockers from waist to ankles, belt cinched, fly zipped. Cindy circled the desk planning to grasp Gladstone’s testicles until he passed out. Her thesis advisor tumbled sideways under a gray cloud tinged with orange. Gladstone threw up his forearms, a futile gesture, as Cindy pulled the bear spray trigger and applied a three-second blast. “With Frontiersman Bear Spray,” she said rising and popping the safety tab. Do you know how?”Īs Gladstone remained rooted to his chair, mouth agape, Cindy dropped her right hand into her briefcase, and extracted a black cylinder topped by nozzle and trigger. “I know, for example, that you’re not wearing your pants, that you’re about to stand and expose your genitals, because you’ve already done it.” “An implant that lets me drop back twenty seconds and adjust what’s already, allegedly, occurred.” “Would we, Professor Gladstone? Because I’ve fabricated a prototype.” Cindy tapped the left side of her jaw. “I do disagree that it can be reversed at the macro level to produce a time machine.” Gladstone leaned forward. I have a few suggestions.”Ĭindy smiled and said, “You disagree that entropy is connected to time?” ![]() “But don’t worry, we’ll hammer out a viable proposal. You don’t mind if I call you Cindy?” He sat back. He lifted the thin sheaf of papers on his desk and dropped them. Gladstone removed reading glasses, reducing his brown eyes to normal size. Theresa had laughed and said, just make sure he keeps his pants on. Earlier, Cindy had asked Theresa, the only other female doctoral candidate, about Gladstone. Cindy, briefcase clasped to her chest, positioned her rear on the edge of the office’s twill sofa. He sat behind a beige metal desk with faux oak top and beckoned with his left hand. Professor Gladstone’s age? Cindy had guessed fifties with his steel hair and bushy eyebrows, but at close range, surveying a face of furrows, upped the estimate to mid-sixties. It is exactly the entropy increase in the entire system that allowed the entropy in the part of the system to decrease thus producing life, evolution, and ultimately intelligence.You can print this page by copying its URL to M. Without this constant entropy increase, life on Earth would be impossible. Such a reduction of the entropy as the emergence of life and its evolution on Earth was possible exactly because Earth alone is not a closed system, but a conduit of a tremendous entropy increase of the solar energy dissipating as heat. In this sense biological life and evolution represent a highly organized matter and therefore a low entropy. ![]() Entropy is often referred to as a measure of chaos, so order would be the opposite of entropy. However, the entropy on Earth alone can indeed decrease. The entropy of the whole (closed) system (Sun, Earth, and space) always increases. For example, Earth receives the solar energy prom the Sun and dissipates it into space as heat. Yes, absolutely! The entropy can decrease for a system that is not closed. In this sense your question would be if the entropy of a system can decrease. I think what you mean is that the entropy doesn't change for reversible processes, but increases for irreversible processes. ![]()
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