How the Law of Entropy Wears Down Everything

If you walk through the halls of a museum that houses Greek and Roman statuary, you will see that few of the figures are whole. Many have no limbs or heads. And the places where the arms or legs were lost have been smoothed down. We instinctively know that the wear of time is responsible because we experience this in all aspects of our own lives.

Virtually no structure, human or natural, survives intact no matter…