Sentences with phrase «entropy of a closed system»

The confusion arises when the 2nd law is phrased in another equivalent way, «The entropy of a closed system can not decrease.»

The notion of a Boltzmann brain is built on 19th - century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann's idea that the entropy of a closed system — a measure of its disorder — always increases.

The second law does state that the total entropy of a closed system can't decrease, but it does allow parts of a system to become more orderly as long as other parts becomes less so.

In any case, for someone to claim that an energy exchange violates the second law of thermodynamics they need to show there is a reduction in entropy of a closed system.

Unless you can show that no irreversible transport of heat energy is possible — even in fluctuations — within this gas, which is prima facie absurd, it is trivial to show that moving heat from the bottom to the top increases the entropy of the closed system.

Not exact matches

Irreversible causal sequences or increasing entropy in one direction of closed systems over time create «time's arrow.»

The closest we get phenomenologically to a system of decreasing entropy is in our moments of creativity.

The catch is that the cyclic universe runs into the second law of thermodynamics, which says the entropy, or disorder, of a closed system will inevitably increase over time.

Although entropy must increase over time in an isolated or «closed» system, an «open» system can keep its entropy low — that is, divide energy unevenly among its atoms — by greatly increasing the entropy of its surroundings.

His own planet was stupid enough to exhaust its resources so he'll just rob trillions of other planets of theirs in the hopes that entropy, a natural property of all closed systems, will just cease.

Think of the example above like this — If, for some reason, in a closed system, this was the only movement of energy taking place, we could calculate the entropy change and it has increased.

«greenhouse» gases in the atmosphere, since, as anybody but a climate change advocate nut knows, heat rises, most will then waft back harmlessly up into space, as the earth, as all functions seek equilibrium and homeostasis (those scientists believing that is a function of physiology and biology or entropy in a closed rather than open and single ended variant and changing input system don't know what they are talking about) then shifts back into balance, which is really what it is doing all along, since

And do you understand that if gravity is a part of the internal interactions of a closed system, it can not decrease the entropy of that system because that would violate the second law of thermodynamics?

Well the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says that entropy must increase and that entropy can never decrease in a closed system without the creation of energy.

My point is not that we can't keep burning fossil fuels (unfirtunately there's plenty), but rather that it is an entropy - creating process — there's no way this sort of activity is somehow offset by solar energy (which, you'll recall, is the only difference between us and an chaos - prone closed system).