A state of maximum entropy, maximum disorder, means that the universe has come to equilibrium.
The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that entropy is always increasing [toward some maximum disorder, equilibrium state].
In a state of total entropy, no further work can be done....this called the heat death of the universe.
The every increasing entropy value in the universe is pushing it towards thermal equilibrium. When the universe reaches this point, no further energy can be extracted, from anything...life can no longer exist.
Energy can change from one form to anther, but with each conversion, there is some "heat" loss which prevents 100% efficiency and an every increasing entropy.
At equilibrium, no further energy conversions are possible, everything is in its most stable state.
2006-08-18 12:50:37
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answer #1
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answered by mrjeffy321 7
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Entropy and chaos are not the same thing, Entropy is a thermodynamic state function that relates the number of possible chemical states a substance can occupy to the energy in the substance. Its equated with disorder because substances with more entropy exist more in a state or randomness, for example a gas has more entropy than a liquid. The entropy of the universe is always increasing, it never decrerases, so it never gets "sucked up."
2006-08-18 11:36:09
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answered by Anonymous
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If this is a true or false question, and your theory is an implication that black holes are where our lost energy is going, then it sounds like true is the answer.
Entropy means the tendency to increasing randomness. As the first answerer said, it does not mean chaos. Entropy implies that the universe will eventually wind down to a random "static." Chaos is that which has a framework of order, although it appears random events. If your theory is true, I suppose there is no entropy and, yes, it is chaos.
2006-08-18 12:10:28
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answered by Anonymous
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Entropy is the driving force behind the universe.
Remember, energy is never created or destroyed. So how can we have an energy crisis? Why do things get cold? Why does anything happen in the universe at all? It cannot be driven by energy, because the amount of energy never changes.
The answer is that entropy drives the universe. Things cool down because the available energy gets distributed across more states. Things happen because energy moves to create the maximumu (ie most even) distribution.
2006-08-18 11:49:21
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answered by Anonymous
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Entropy of a system is the logorithm of the number of quantum states consistent with a given macroscopic description (temperature, shape, density, material, etc..) of the system. That's it. All else follows. Classically, this number is infinite, but in QM, it's finite. If you have two systems with A and B number accessible states, the combined system has A*B states (permutations). That's why they take the log. Log(A*B)=Log(A) +Log(B). That makes entropy additive and, therefore, easier to keep track of.
2006-08-18 14:38:57
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answered by Dr. R 7
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Entropy is extremely kinda no longer straightforward to comprehend, and it may genuinely deliver approximately no longer straightforward questions like this one. before everything, entropy isn't strictly affliction, in spite of the actuality that it extremely is often construed in that experience. this is actual that a noticeably disordered gadget, like a gasoline, generally has greater entropy than an ordered gadget (like a very good). Strictly speaking, entropy isn't comparable to affliction nonetheless. I continually tell my scholars to think of of entropy this variety: entropy is a diploma of potential it extremely is unavailable to do artwork. Take an merchandise that includes a very good form of ability potential, like a battery. As you employ the battery, the flexibility potential interior the battery gets became into electric powered potential, then to sound, mild, warmth, and kinetic (looking on what form of gadget the battery is powering). ultimately, the potential is dissipated faraway from the battery into the Universe. because of the fact the potential has become greater "smoothed out", entropy has greater advantageous. you're saying entropy is often increasing. it extremely is actual in case you exchange it with the words "interior the Universe". Entropy can cut back domestically, like whilst your physique synthesizes a protein from common amino acids. All of those close by reversals of entropy might desire to be paid for via an excellent greater advantageous enhance in entropy someplace else. to illustrate, plant life make glucose from carbon dioxide and water, yet in basic terms because of the fact the solar components them the potential to accomplish that. The solar is continually raising the entropy of the Universe because of the fact the potential produced in its center is spreading and smoothing out. The planets shaped using gravitational crumple, and as they did, they dissipated a great quantity of warmth into area. The gasoline cloud from which they condensed had so plenty greater potential than the planets do now, so the 2d regulation of thermodynamics become no longer violated via their formation.
2016-12-14 07:57:39
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answered by ? 4
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