I believe that many of my friends have heard of the law of entropy increase. This is a law that makes scientists desperate. After understanding it, many people suddenly realized it. Then why? What exactly is the law of entropy increase?
In fact, the law of entropy increase is not as complicated as we think. It is the second law of thermodynamics and a theory proposed by Clausius, a German. In 1865, the German physicist Clausius first proposed the concept of “entropy”. He believed that in a closed and isolated system, heat always flows from high temperature to low temperature, from order to disorder, and this A process is irreversible.
Let’s give some simple examples to understand the law of entropy increase. For example, a cup of boiling water will become cold when left, and the water can only flow from a high place to a low place. The fallen leaves will not turn into trees. The more and more stuck, the clothes will get older and older. The reason for this is that the increase in entropy is constantly increasing, and the total chaos will become greater and greater without the energy being delivered by the outside world.
The emergence of the law of entropy increase allows us to see the end of all things. The statement is destruction. From a macro perspective, entropy increase is an irreversible process. Although the universe is vast and vast, But as time goes by, it will continue to become chaotic, and finally to heat death, this is the final outcome of the universe.
The law of entropy increase reveals the ultimate law of the evolution of all things, implying that mankind will eventually go to destruction, and the entire universe will eventually go to heat death. This law allows people to understand a lot of truths: for example, the road to immortality of mankind is ultimately only an illusion and cannot become a reality.
You know, since ancient times, the desire for eternal life has never stopped. In ancient times, many emperors adopted various methods to realize the dream of eternal life, but they all failed in the end. Some people may say that after entering the age of technology, humans no longer dream of immortality, but in fact, in the age of technology, scientists have been exploring and researching immortality. The more advanced the technology, the more scientists explore immortality and the crazier it is.
However, the law of entropy increase tells us that immortality is impossible to achieve. In addition, the perpetual motion machine that scientists have once proposed. From the perspective of the law of entropy increase, it is also impossible to achieve. The law of increase in entropy allows us to see the final outcome of everything and makes many people feel desperate, but in this despair, there is still a little bit of hope hidden, and this hope comes from mankind itself.
According to research by scientists, although the increase in entropy is irreversible from the point of view of the entire universe, a small range of entropy reduction can be achieved in a certain area. We cannot change the final outcome of everything, but we can postpone the arrival of this day within a certain range, just like some people leave the world at a young age, and some people are still alive in their 100s.
As early as 1943, the great physicist Schrödinger proposed in his work: life depends on negative entropy, and people live to fight the law of entropy increase. So how do we fight against entropy increase? The answer is the vitality of life. As long as we can continue to increase the vitality of life, then we can effectively combat the increase in entropy and let the destruction come later.
Let’s take another simple example to illustrate: I believe that many friends like sports, and that life lies in sports is a very effective means to combat entropy increase. We can make our bodies more and more energetic and healthier through running and other exercises, various diseases will go away from us, and human life span will increase.
If we want to be promoted, raise salary, and have a higher social status, we need to keep learning, and learning is also a way to fight against entropy. In the same way, if we want to have a more intimate relationship, we must use “love words”, “gifts” and “money” to resist the increase in entropy.
The law of entropy increase tells us that if you do nothing, tomorrow will not get better, but will only get worse and worse, friendship will fade, loved ones will leave you, career will go to a trough, ten What you were confused about years ago will be even more confused in the future.
We continue to absorb material energy, constantly learn to obtain information, and constantly adjust our mentality. These are actually vitality. When we continue to do these things, driven by negative entropy, the effect of entropy reduction will appear. For example, if you write articles frequently, your writing style will get better and better. Of course, even if we have been developing in a better direction, the end of life is still irreversible.
So is this kind of negative entropy feeding of life a completely good phenomenon? Of course not. In the process of fighting against entropy increase, we took away negative entropy, and the consequences were also very serious. For example, in order to fight against entropy increase, human beings entered the age of science and technology. With the support of science and technology, we can more effectively absorb energy, process energy, and release energy.
In this way, the increase of negative entropy can be increased, thereby improving the efficiency of fighting against the increase of entropy, so that human beings can live longer and live better. However, the result of this is the continuous deterioration of the earth’s ecological environment. Today’s accelerated deterioration of the earth’s ecological environment is the result of the rapid development of industry. But from the perspective of the law of entropy increase, this is actually very normal. The stronger human beings are against entropy increase, the faster the earth’s environment will deteriorate. Perhaps it will not take long for the earth to become a world that cannot adapt to human survival. Deserted planet.
Of course, science and technology have given mankind a stronger and more efficient means to combat entropy increase. As long as our technology can be updated and moved forward rapidly, all kinds of problems caused by negative entropy can be effectively resolved. The earth can no longer survive, we can move to other planets, we must know that in the vast universe, there are so many planets that adapt to human existence.
As for the increasing entropy value of the universe, as humans continue to improve their understanding of the universe, there may be a certain solution to reduce the entropy of the universe to a certain extent and slow the universe’s heat death. To realize this ultimate desire, we must first determine whether the universe is an isolated system, and whether there will be more vast space outside the universe.
If the multiverse theory can be confirmed in the future, it means that our universe is not an isolated system. As long as it is not an isolated system, it can absorb external energy to fight against the increase in entropy and continue to delay the arrival of the end of the universe.