The laws of thermodynamics are valid when measured over time. You cannot create energy where there was none before. There can be quantum fluctuations wherein particles, and thus energy, pop into existence from The vacuum, but these particles vanish. These fluctuations do not actually violate the 2nd law even in their short time frames, because there is energy in the vacuum itself. The 'big bang' was an event in which the energy of the vacuum spontaneously created matter and other forms of energy. The 2nd law was not violated. The energy of the vacuum was simply immense enough to give rise to the universe and the matter and energy in it.
2006-11-04 07:58:12
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answered by PoppaJ 5
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On the contrary, the second law of thermodynamics is a statistical law that is used very frequently when discussion the early evolution of the universe. More specifically, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics (from which the second law can be derived) is used to compute abundances of small elements from early big bang dynamics.
One difficulty that many people have when discussing the big bang is that they imagine a time 'before the big bang'. This is a severe misconception. Time itself is part of the universe and is affected by the matter and energy in the universe. The singularity at the 'instant' of the big bang is such that it is impossible to talk about an 'earlier time', just like it is impossible to talk about something 'north of the north pole'. The time 'coordinate' simply cannot be extended past that point. At least,this is the description in the standard model that seems to fit all the data we have collected. It is possible that quantum theories of gravity (which we don't have yet) could make that singularity blur and allow an'earlier time', but that is still pure speculation.
2006-11-04 10:26:44
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answered by mathematician 7
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Why do you think that big bang violates the second law of thermodynamics. All explosions, including the big bang, and massive increases in entropy. You start with a compact highly ordered system which you blow apart in every direction.
2006-11-04 07:54:30
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answered by sparrowhawk 4
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The initial conditions of the big bang were in an incredibly low state of entropy.
That said, highly ordered systems of entropy exist as exceptions to the 2nd law, like living things, but things still tend to evolve from a low state to a higher state of entropy. Which is why I have to go clean the garage now.
2006-11-04 07:51:40
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answered by Anonymous
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Righto, mate, i'm going to offer it a crack. Organisms reproduce. they do no longer reproduce acceptable copies of themselves, there is often some gentle version. each and every from time to time, the adjustments (or mutations, as they are extra good noted as) rather advance an organism's probabilities of surviving in its atmosphere long adequate to reproduce. Or, contained in relation to the peacock with its stupidly heavy yet ideal tail, it in basic terms will advance the organism's probabilities of having laid. the two way, it incredibly is going to be extra probable to offer offspring. besides, those helpful mutations will, over right here couple of generations, radiate into the gene pool, and those with it is going to outbreed those with out. it is version, or "microevolution". The diversifications assemble over many generations, and the small changes upload as much as very very massive ones certainly. it is how a canines and a poultry can, in case you circulate returned some distance adequate, share an common ancestor. We share our maximum recent uncomplicated ancestor with chimpanzees. We chop up from them approximately 6 million years in the past.
2016-10-21 06:32:01
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answered by ? 4
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This is life, anything can happen, oh and in the future there will be a meteor shower, but they wont be meteors, they will be hard shelled cacoons with slime all over it, after an hour crab looking creatures will come out and dig into people's skins and go for the brain, the crabs will then eat the brain because it has a lot of proteins in it, the human population will then decrease by 30%
2006-11-04 07:52:58
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answered by ? 2
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You have it wrong. Big Bang doesn't say "no matter existed", it says all the matter was confined to a singularity.
2006-11-04 10:06:09
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answered by Anonymous
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You can't explain it because it didn't happen. The laws of thermodynamics remain intact.
2006-11-04 10:12:41
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answered by Von Kempelen 5
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incomprehensible-Get over it. Our tiny brains weren't made to understand every dam thing.
2006-11-04 07:50:48
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answered by super stud 4
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