The arrow of time can teach us more about how the universe began – and how it will end, says quantum columnist Karmela ...

But the Sun is also low-entropy in itself. Life is one of the many things in the universe that have low entropy – stars, planets, etcetera all have low entropy. This often seems baffling.

The curious minds at Aperture explore how the concept of entropy may lead to the ultimate heat death of the universe.

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Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

The universe is getting more disordered, entropy is growing -- this is the second law of thermodynamics. But according to quantum theory, entropy should actually stay the same. Scientists took a ...

It all stems from Nernst's theorem, also known as the third law of thermodynamics, an experimental observation from 1905 ...

In the 1999 film The Matrix, Thomas Anderson (a.k.a. Neo) discovers a truth to end all truths—the universe is a simulation.While this premise provides fantastic sci-fi fodder (and explains how ...

The paper argues that the third principle of thermodynamics follows from the second principle, rather than being a separate or independent concept. Professor José María Martín-Olalla of the University ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature—one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true.

The entropy of the universe has increased overall, even though it decreased inside the freezer temporarily. But our topic today is the Sun, so let’s talk about the connection between our star ...