Golden Earring wrote: > To be more precise, I believe that the definition of entropy has > recently been redefined to allow strictly -*loca​l*- temporary > reductions in entropy (i.e. increases in order) within the universe > (caused by such strange phenomena as life, for example), but only if the > net effect over a longer period is an even greater increase in entropy > (disorder) than would otherwise have been the case. >
Can't be all that recent because the above is what I learned in First Year Thermodynamics about 50 years ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
