How, I believe Physicists Are Bleakly Misrepresenting The Second Law of Thermodynamics
By well-wisher
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"The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed; the total quantity of energy in the universe stays the same.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is about the quality of energy. It states that as energy is transferred or transformed, more and more of it is wasted. The Second Law also states that there is a natural tendency of any isolated system to degenerate into a more disordered state"
from LiveScience website
The second law says "as energy is transferred or transformed, more and more of it is wasted" but if Energy cannot be destroyed then what does "wasted" really mean, the energy is still there just in a different form.
The second law also says "there is a natural tendency of any isolated system to degenerate into a more disordered state" but what can it degenerate into, nothing but the energy which the first law says can't be destroyed and if the energy is still there then theres potential for new order to form; the disordered state is nothing more than the ashes out of which a phoenix of new order can arise.
If you look at the second law in isolation of the first law, it looks bleak, like the universe could burn out forever but if you look at it in the context of the first law, you realise that the universe that burns out could reignite itself.
For example Stephen Hawkings says that the Universe and Time will end but says nothing about the possibility of the Universe being reborn or Time beginning again.
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