lolwut? i dont think so its more like... its chemistry - #80195078 added by AnonymousDonor at science is awesome

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Wait a second... if the last one is true, then how do we explain the origin of the earth? The story is, it was chaos and then followed order, but that simply can't be. Adding time to something does not equal order, it equals chaos. Deterioration.

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Earth isn't chaos?

Look at the moon. All the matter just sits there doing nothing for the most part. Doing nothing = order.

Now Earth... there's balls of matter running around going crazy on their own all over it and it's like -> <- this close to blowing itself to bits.

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The earth is not a closed system. Order tends to fall to disorder, but there can be little clusters of order building up within the closed system [universe], making a micro-open system [earth] that will eventually become disorderly with the full system.

#313 to #304 - anon id: 4fe2ae31

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The Second Law of Thermodynamics only applies to cases called "Closed Systems" where no matter leaves or enters.

#315 to #313 - juckinfunk

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So what was the universe considered before the big bang? It wasn't a closed system?

#319 to #315 - AnonymousDonor

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we dont have a clue what the universe was actually like before the big bang
it could have been a big hot ball of mass
it could have been a quantum singularity [black hole]
hell it could have literally been nothing
your guess is as good as theirs

#314 to #313 - snakefire

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muse- unsustainable

in isolated systems entropy can only increase

#306 to #304 - AnonymousDonor

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adding time increases chaos to the whole system
you're only looking at the earth
in your case, the earth decreases in entropy/chaos but the surrounding universe (the system) has an overall increase

>science'd

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So it only applies to earth?

#317 to #311 - AnonymousDonor

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(01/10/2013)[-]

lolwut?
i dont think so its more like... its chemistry more than physics. it takes energy for the atoms to combine and the molecules to form to decrease the entropy of the earth right? that energy is drawn from the whole universe (a system which the earth is a part of) and, in doing so, leaves less energy for the rest of the universe to form those kind of bonds
without that energy, higher molecules/atoms/particles outside of the earth will dissociate (and consequently donate free energy) in order to compensate for the loss of equilibrium