IN “The New Background of Science” Sir James Jeans, in discussing the activities of life in relation to the second law of thermodynamics, states that living organisms must possess some method ...

A fundamental rule that determines the fate of the universe The second law of thermodynamics means hot things always cool unless you do something to stop them. It expresses a fundamental and ...

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 ...