Cosmology has a way of turning everyday certainty inside out, and few ideas do it more brutally than the suggestion that your ...
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 ...
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 ...
If gravity arises from entropy, scientists could unite Einstein's general relativity with the quantum realm while shedding light on dark matter and dark energy. When you purchase through links on our ...
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Entropy isn’t what it used to be

Entropy. Randomness. Disorder. Think of it as the universe’s tendency to move from ordered to disordered forms. It is a scientific concept of something that increases over time and something that is ...
A jewellery chain, like everything else in the universe, is subject to the second law of thermodynamics, explains one reader ...
A new theory suggests that gravity could possibly be the result of entropy. If true, this would mean that everything in the universe would fall apart if it all remained unchanged. This theory tries to ...