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The second law isn’t just slowly killing you in PChem, but slowly killing the universe…
October 18, 2009 – 5:58 pm | 3 Comments
The second law isn’t just slowly killing you in PChem, but slowly killing the universe…

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of the universe is increasing. Black holes contribute to the entropy of the universe by breaking down matter into more disordered states. Previous studies on a …