The Second Law of Thermodynamics has several variations. One version says that
some heat is always wasted when converting heat into mechanical energy. In other words
all heat can not be completely converted into mechanical energy. Another states that heat
normally flows from high to low temperatures. So why do hot cups cool off, well the
answer lies in the fact that the universe is expanding. Say the universe started off infinitely
small and infinitely dense, then expanded at an exponential rate as fluctuations in density
increased, eventually forming galaxies. This explanation of the universe would explain the
existence of the thermodynamic arrow of time. Because the universe is expanding,
disorder is increasing. It can't be stopped. No one and nothing is powerful enough to
break the laws of thermodynamics. Albert Einstein once said, "Thermodynamics is the
only physical theory of general nature of which I am convinced that it will never be
overthrown." If you want to know what's going on in the physical world, you simply
To understand the forward flow of time, suppose that God decided that the
universe should finish in a state of high order but that it didn't matter what state it started
in. This would mean that disorder would increase with time. One could observe a broken
bottle gathering itself together on the floor and jumping back up onto the table. Such
beings would have a psychological arrow of time that is backward. This means that I
could take a warm Pepsi, set it on the counter and the colder particles in the room would
become closer together and surround the bottle thus cooling the Pepsi. This makes the
second law of thermodynamics questionable. Disorder increases with time because we
measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
Why don't we see broken things gathering themselves
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