OPEN SYSTEMS. “Although entropy must increase over time in an isolated or “closed” system, an “open” system can keep its entropy low — that is, divide energy unevenly among its atoms — by greatly increasing the entropy of its surroundings. In his influential 1944 monograph “What Is Life?” the eminent quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger argued that this is what living things must do.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022