Sentences with phrase «into high entropy»

If we do so, we will see that all of our actions in the world are costly, transforming low entropy resources into high entropy waste.

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The belief and hope of matter resulted in its radical transformation into a new and higher dimension — living matter — in which it is assured a measure of survival from the physical entropy that threatens its level of existence.

By this he meant that although inorganic matter was inevitably subject to entropy, (all the structure of peaks and valleys puddling out into a flat line of cosmic death) organic matter, life, had a reverse drive for higher and higher complexities, from the amoebae to the whale brain.

In a commentary piece on Sachdev's article3, McGreevy says that high - temperature superconductors are known to change from strange metal behaviour to superconducting as they are cooled and so avoid getting into the zero - entropy state.

Economic growth degrades high - order (low entropy) energy stocks, turning them into low - order (high entropy) heat and emissions.

The thermal energy is what's left when you map the system into local frames which null out all the orderly motions (which have zero or nearly zero entropy), leaving you just the random stuff (with high entropy).

If a driving force is increased, the resulting higher energy will seek all available paths to dissipate into entropy.