Death, the ultimate destination of life, is a question that we all know, but we can't explain.
Why do all lives end up dying?The law of entropy increase, the terminator of life and the universe
Many people have woken up after reading this article and understood the true meaning of life, and I hope it will also help you.
In fact, not only life, but also the earth and even the entire universe are born to death, this is the basic law of the universe, there will be birth and death, and life and the universe have a day to end, so what determines all this?
It is entropy, the ultimate destiny of the universe, which governs everything in the universe, including the entire process of life from birth to death.
At the beginning of the 19th century, scientists discovered the famous law of conservation of energy, that is, the driving force of the world is energy, and the sum of energy always remains the same, but energy can never be 100% converted, and no matter how hard you try, you can't reduce energy loss to zero.
Therefore, scientists call the energy wasted in the conversion process that cannot be reused entropy, which is also known as the second law of thermodynamics, that is, the energy conversion process will always produce entropy, which is why, human beings can never make a perpetual motion machine.
Entropy is the degree of chaos or disorder of the system, the second law of thermodynamics points out that all things will eventually tend to maximize entropy, that is, if you do not exert the influence of external forces, things will always develop towards a more chaotic state, why the sorted headphone cable, when taken out and used, it will become particularly messy, the house is easy to break if no one lives for a long time, the rainbow is easy to scatter the glass green, the fireworks are difficult to leave flowers and are easy to be disabled, why all good things can not exist for a long time?
Because all beauty needs energy to maintain a good state, and without energy intervention, a good state will slowly end. The same is true of life, with the birth of life, entropy also begins to slowly increase, eating is to generate energy against entropy, in the process of fighting death, all life is working hard, but no matter how hard it tries, it is only to reduce the production of entropy as much as possible, but it cannot be completely eliminated.
When entropy reaches a certain critical point, life will come to an end, and in the same way, this is the case for human civilization on the earth and even the entire universe, from the birth of human beings to the rapid development of science and technology, it has always continued under the alternation of order and chaos. Both human beings and the universe are experiencing reincarnation in a process of disorder and chaos. All human beings do is try to create and maintain some kind of order, but any order will collapse and die one day, and everything will still develop towards disorder and chaos.
Entropy can never be eliminated, and all human beings do is to transfer chaos to other realms in the process of maintaining order. Therefore, the process of life is the process of fighting entropy, and nothing is destined to exist forever, and this is true of the universe, and the same is true of life, but the length of time is different.
From the moment the universe was born 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been developing towards chaos, from life to the universe, it seems that everything has been arranged by some force, and everything, including the entire universe, is just going through this process.
A hundred years of life is just a flick of a finger, and it seems short and pitiful in front of the age of the universe, but according to the law of entropy increase, the universe will eventually go to destruction, but the critical point of different things is different, so death is the end of everything, and it is also another beginning, a node between order and chaos, life and the universe are in a cycle between the two, endlessly.
So what exactly is the force that controls entropy?Maybe we'll never get the answer.
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