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Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def..
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RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def..
(December 16, 2017 at 7:25 pm)Succubus Wrote: It's actually far more simple than that.

Entropy:

Quote:A thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work."

The second law of thermodynamics:
Place a glass of hot water and a glass of cold water in a perfectly insulated container. This is a disordered state. Over a period of time the hot water will cool down and the cold water will heat up. Now you have equilibrium, an ordered state, maximum entropy. no work can be done, ie, no more energy can pass from one body to the other.

This gets to the point that there is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine that has 100% input leading to 100% output. There is always a loss in the exchange when doing work. Correct me if I am wrong.

But in my op, I was trying to understand, that it seems the way I understand it, at the singularity, there was more order, and as inflation took place and the universe expanded there is now less order and more localized order?
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Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 16, 2017 at 4:52 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 16, 2017 at 7:02 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 16, 2017 at 9:00 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Succubus - December 16, 2017 at 10:25 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Magilla - December 21, 2017 at 7:51 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 16, 2017 at 9:31 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 16, 2017 at 10:59 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 17, 2017 at 1:07 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 17, 2017 at 6:30 pm
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by Brian37 - December 19, 2017 at 7:42 am
RE: Entropy/lose the math, need laypersons def.. - by uncool - January 13, 2018 at 10:46 pm

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