Second Law of thermodynamics!!!

The law that forces the entire Universe to comply with its formulation!!!! The second law of thermodynamics is "the supreme law" of all the laws that were ever invented by a human being...

If someone is looking for the immortal place in the history of the mankind, try and answer the following question: "What it is the nature of physical foundation (or universe) in terms of the Second Law of Thermodynamics?"

Few interesting quotes by two giants:

"The law that entropy always increases -- the second law of thermodynamics -- holds I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much worse for Maxwell equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of Thermodynamics, I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. "

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, in The Nature of the Physical World. Maxmillan, New York, 1948, p. 74


"[A law] is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability. Therefore, the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made on me. It is the only physical theory of universal content, which I am convinced, that within the framework of applicability of its basic concepts will never be overthrown. "

Albert Einstein, quoted in M.J. Klein, Thermodynamics in Einstein's Universe, in Science, 157 (1967), p. 509.
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There are many many different equivalent ways of stating the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Here is one of them:

The total entropy of an isolated physical system "never" decreases.

The total negentropy of an isolated physical system "never" increases.

Please visit the following URL to understand the meanings of these two propositions:

http://www.upscale.utoronto.ca/GeneralInterest/Harrison/LifeEnergy/Materials/EinsteinFlash.html

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Dnyanesh