Quotes About Entropy

The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.

If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy.

Everything tears away at everything else … forever.

To state this matter in the most lucid terms: each of these hyper-organisms, even as they scintillated with an obscene degree of vital impulses, also, and at the same time, had degeneracy and death written deeply upon them.

Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any spontaneous process tends to increase the entropy of a system.

Such is the way of things, all order passing into chaos, given time enough.

Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.

There is no logical necessity for the existence of a unique direction of total time; whether there is only one time direction, or whether time directions alternate, depends on the shape of the entropy curve plotted by the universe.

Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.

The search for the meaning of temperature and entropy of matter led to the discovery of atoms. The search for the meaning of the temperature and entropy of radiation led to the discovery of quanta. In just the same way, the search for the meaning of the temperature and entropy of a black hole is now leading to the discovery of the atomic structure of space and time.

For simple black holes, which do not rotate and have no electric charge, the values of the temperature and entropy can be expressed very simply. The area of the horizon of a simple black hole is proportional to the square of its mass, in Planck units. The entropy S is proportional to this quantity. In terms of Planck units, we have the simple formula S = .25 A / h G. Where A is the area of the horizon, and G is the gravitational constant.

So the challenge for any quantum theory of gravity is to give us a deeper understanding of Bekenstein's entropy and Hawking's temperature.

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

Entropy gets in everywhere.

Only entropy comes easy.

We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.

Nature—in an effort to promote disorder—creates little pockets of order.

Everything decayed, the perfectly ordered crystal eventually turned into random particles of dust.

De unde venim? Adev?rul e c? venim de nic?ieri... È™i de pretutindeni. ApariÈ›ia noastr? se datoreaz? aceloraÈ™i legi ale fizicii care au creat viaÈ›a în întregul univers. Nu suntem cu nimic deosebiÈ›i. Exist?m cu sau f?r? Dumnezeu. Suntem rezultatul inevitabil al entropiei. ViaÈ›a nu este unicul rost al universului. ViaÈ›a este, pur È™i simplu, ceea ce creeaz? È™i reproduce universul pentru a disipa energia.

In the months since Challenger, Baedecker had found it hard to believe that the country had ever flown so frequently and competently into space. The long hiatus of earthbound doubt in which nothing flew had become the normal state of things to Baedecker, mixing in his own mind with a dreary sense of heaviness, of entropy and gravity triumphant.

every system has within it the seeds of its own destruction

Chaos, when left alone, tends to multiply.