Is Entropy an Illusion?
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According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, any closed system, including the universe, perpetually moves toward greater disorder. But I battle disorder every day — organizing books, straightening my apartment, organizing my physical world. So I question the credibility of that law.
Perhaps order is in the eye of the beholder.
According to chaos theory, complex and apparently random physical phenomena, such as weather and ocean currents, exhibit patterns that computer analysis can reveal. And a teenager may see order in what, to his parents, appears as the chaos of a messy bedroom.
Perhaps the universe as a whole, seen from a different perspective, has a more complex and not yet recognized order. The universe may have an inherent tendency toward greater order, counterbalancing the increasing disorder that scientists now observe.
