In the strange, often unintuitive world of quantum physics, one mystery has stood out for decades: Can quantum entanglement be manipulated in a reversible way, like energy in a perfect heat engine?

As thermodynamics requires, energy is always conserved (the first law), and when it flows from hot to cold it can do work, limited by the generation of disorder, or entropy (the second law).

The second law of thermodynamics says, in simple terms, entropy always increases. This principle explains, for example, why you can't unscramble an egg.

Universal validity of the second law of information thermodynamics. arXiv: 2308.15558. Posted August 23, 2023. S. Wolfram. Computational foundations for the second law of thermodynamics. February ...

Evolution breaks the Second Law of Thermodynamics Aug 18, 2008 A Fighter Squadron 33 (VF-33) F-14A Tomcat aircraft heads for the setting sun during a flight off of the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA ...

Apparent macroscopic violation of the second law of thermodynamics in a quantum system is discovered. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 09 ...

Just over 200 years after French engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot formulated the second law of thermodynamics, an international team of researchers has unveiled an analogous law for the quantum ...

The second law of thermodynamics means hot things always cool unless you do something to stop them. It expresses a fundamental and simple truth about the universe: that disorder, characterised as ...

The second law of thermodynamics demands that if we want to make a clock more precise – thereby reducing the disorder, or ...

If you want something to be mad at for your misfortunes in physics, there’s no better candidate than the second law of thermodynamics. Things breaking down, aging, and even death depend on that ...