Can quantum systems become more disordered, as thermodynamics would predict? Yes, they can - if a proper definition of "entropy" is used. It is one of the most important laws of nature that we know: ...

In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics ...

Scientists have shown, through probabilistic calculations, that there is indeed, as had been hypothesized, a rule of 'entropy' for the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. This finding could help drive ...

A jewellery chain, like everything else in the universe, is subject to the second law of thermodynamics, explains one reader ...

We experience the flow of time because it’s a natural outcome of the basic laws of physics. But we may need to build a whole ...

Thanks to the power of fluctuation relations, physicists are taking the second law of thermodynamics to settings once thought impossible. Since the steam engine began modernizing the world, the second ...

Pioneers of evolutionary psychology John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and H. Clark Barrett argue that “the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the First Law of Psychology” in a 2003 paper of that very name. The ...

The universe, in all its vastness, is governed by physical laws that dictate the ebb and flow of matter and energy. A cornerstone among these laws is the second law of thermodynamics, which suggests a ...

Science is defined, via Merriam-Webster dictionary, as “Knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and test through the scientific method.” Although the ...