According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is doomed.
Part of this law, entropy, dictates that anything left to itself will head toward degeneration, disintegration, and chaos. Though circumstances exist in which order is created, there is said to be a net loss of order; entropy reigns in the bigger picture.
“The universe is defined as a great machine running down and wearing out,” explains general systems scientist George Land of the University of Minnesota and educator Beth S. Jarman, Ph.D., in their recently published book “Nature’s Hidden Force: Joining Spirituality and Science.” As Land and Jarman see it, “This law has created a bleak and dismal worldview that has permeated science, philosophy, and much literature since the 1800s.”
