will the internet eventually become a vast wasteland of unintelligible nonsense?
2007-02-17 07:49:40 · 5 answers · asked by vicarious_notion 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
From a physical standpoint, it's impossible to have a transfer of thermal energy without an increase in entropy. That's like asking if you can roll downhill without losing altitude.
As far a as the internet is concerned, what do you mean, eventually?
2007-02-17 08:37:15 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Entrophy is not "nonsense", it is a mathematical phenomenon of things going to mathematical dispersement. It only says that tings will probably go towards dispersion, just like your room tends to get messy & less organized. But this process probably will never be completed, as in order to make some molecules more random, others sometimes become more ordered, like how our bodies are so ordered & function so well. We're not just a blob of carbon, we have structure, even though life increases the total entrophy in the universe.
2007-02-17 07:54:59 · answer #2 · answered by Jedi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-02-17 08:39:44 · answer #3 · answered by st8 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can only go one way.
Before it becomes unmanageable it will go out of existence.
2007-02-17 13:27:07 · answer #4 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes in fact there is one
2007-02-17 07:53:23 · answer #5 · answered by steve h 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋