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?

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 ...

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

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

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).

This article was originally published with the title “ Does Nature Break the Second Law of Thermodynamics? ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 299 No. 5 (November 2008) doi:10.1038 ...

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 ...