We know that entropy is a measure of disorder and also we know that it always increase never decreases. Time arrow move in forward direction not in reverse.
Ok now my question is when we born we are in highly ordered state as a kids our skin is so tight and shiny than we grow up became young than again we got old our face fade up everything gets more disorders as we know but at same time we produce our relocate we give birth to baby which is highly ordered form now if we think like that entropy always increased.it gets low to high so our baby entropy again became low from our entropy which was high is this doesn't break entropy rules?
Please discuss
Bo Miao
Strange!! If you can prove your statement practically then this will be new breakdown...
Gulammoinuddin Mansuri
Imagine a food factory , so at the beginning the factory was in high order state, time to time entropy of factory will increase it means the factory will be moving in disorder state.
The food factory was moving in lower disorder state but the food produced by the factory is in highly disorder state.
Why i am saying this to you is the rule is "Entropy of an isolated system cannot decreased" it's says only for single system not for sub-systems... entropy for all system is different.
Thankyou
Kind regards,
Ritik bhardwaj
The key for this relation is, imo, the human body temperature; while life and health depend on a relatively stable body temperature, illness and death are characterized by destabilizing the body temperature.
Olivier Denis has given a good clue with negentropy and Schrödinger (What is life?). A simple maths-physical approach Gulammoinuddin Mansuri , with respect to human body temperature states (life/death), could be a methodical beginning for your study of entropy, in terms of human body functions.
The observed characteristic of our universe is that reactions occur wherein some of the energy that was in the initial state is lost and cannot do additional work. That is some of the energy is lost to ``entropy''. We see suns form from hydrogen and release energy to contribute to the universe's entropy. Life needs this energy and has become better at creating entropy than other natural processes. So, life thrives because it serves the universe by increasing the entropy production. So, the presumption stated in the question is incorrect.
I find that the Lagrange and Hamiltonian treatment of mechanics, the big and the small ignore dissipative terms.
The author of the question John Hodge asked how he can relate entropy to life and death. It is difficult for me to relate your general statement (Life needs this energy and has become better at creating entropy than other natural processes) to this specific query; some more explanations are needed, imo, to give us the opportunity to understand your viewpoint on life and death, with respect to entropy.
Prof. Blechschmidt (Human embryology - Blechschmidt collection) wrote in his lifework, that the process of embryonal becoming is to be understood as an energetic own - creator :-) - pulse circuit, quasi as autoreferentiality and in such a targeted way, that it can be thought independently of the surrounding entropy level (field). I found that very interesting.
Stephen I. Ternyik
The universe acts to increase entropy. Life in its birth, growth, death sequence does this better than most other processes. But the author has a imo misstatement, he regards birth as a resetting to a low entropy state. Birth expends a lot of energy and so increases entropy much faster than mere life.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Biological Science
- Molecular Cell Biology
- Culture Cells
- Cell Line