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Disorder is Inevitable: The Secret Lies in Information ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Thermalization and irreversibility of an isolated quantum system II"
· Xue-Yi Guo
arXiv:2506.01351v5 · 2025-06-02 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Quantum Physics
Disorder grows because nature erases information about order.
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Every time sugar dissolves in tea, the information about the cube is irreversibly erased. This is not just a metaphor — a new proof shows that the growth of disorder in nature is precisely caused by the loss of information. Future nanotechnology will be able to control this process.

🎯 Entropy was once called the 'shadow of energy' because it shows how much energy is irretrievably lost for work.

🎬 In Isaac Asimov's story 'The Last Question,' a supercomputer seeks a way to reverse the growth of entropy in the universe.

Scientists
Jacob BekensteinStephen HawkingCharles-Augustin de CoulombJames Clerk MaxwellLudwig BoltzmannJohannes Rydberg
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second law of thermodynamicsBekenstein-Hawking entropyCoulomb's lawBoltzmann distributionRydberg formulafirst law of thermodynamics
Original: arXiv:2506.01351v5 · CC BY · bridge42worlds