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Can entropy be decreased?

Ethan Walker | 2023-06-10 03:12:00 | page views:1665
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Ava Garcia

Studied at Harvard University, Lives in Cambridge, MA
It just says that the total entropy of the universe can never decrease. Entropy can decrease somewhere, provided it increases somewhere else by at least as much. The entropy of a system decreases only when it interacts with some other system whose entropy increases in the process. That is the law.
2023-06-20 03:12:00

Oliver Brown

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It just says that the total entropy of the universe can never decrease. Entropy can decrease somewhere, provided it increases somewhere else by at least as much. The entropy of a system decreases only when it interacts with some other system whose entropy increases in the process. That is the law.
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