Entropy: Embrace the Chaos! Crash Course Chemistry #20
Life is chaos and the universe tends toward disorder. But why? If you think about it, there are only a few ways for things to be arranged in an organized manner, but there are nearly infinite...
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Life is chaos. The whole universe is chaos. Whether it's the terrible state of my office or the slow degradation of my body into dust, the universe tends toward disorder. But why, why is the universe structured in this terrible and callous way? Well, it turns out that it's not really the universe's fault. If you think about it there's only one way, or at best, maybe a few ways for things to be arranged in an organized way. But there are nearly infinite other ways for those same things to be arranged. The simple rules of probability dictate that it's much more likely for stuff, whether it's the stuff on my desk or the particles and energy that make up my concept of self, to be in one of the many disorganized states than in one of the...
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Life is chaos. The whole universe is chaos. Whether it's the terrible state of my office or the slow degradation of my body into dust, the universe tends toward disorder. But why, why is the universe structured in this terrible and callous way? Well, it turns out that it's not really the universe's fault. If you think about it there's only one way, or at best, maybe a few ways for things to be arranged in an organized way. But there are nearly infinite other ways for those same things to be arranged. The simple rules of probability dictate that it's much more likely for stuff, whether it's the stuff on my desk or the particles and energy that make up my concept of self, to be in one of the many disorganized states than in one of the...
