From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 15 2000 - 13:34:22 PDT
Message-Id: <l0311070ab596798d5f71@[192.174.2.173]> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:34:22 -0800 From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Re: pinhole Weak Force Interactions
>
> 2. Some quantum theories have a chaos of particles or potential particles
> or probabilities coalescing into order. How's this relate to the second
> law of thermodynamics? Does it when we're so small? If not, why not?
>
A system in chaos can become organized as long as energy flows into the
system. But this is the law for macroscopic systems with many parts.
A system with just a few parts, with only a few states available to those
parts, can dance between ordered and disordered states as long as the first
law of thermodynamics is obeyed (The law of conservation of energy.)
A great book here is "The Second Law" by PW Atkins it's in the Scientific
American Library series.
Paul D
Paul "But it is more complicated than that!" Doherty,
Senior Staff Scientist, The Exploratorium.
pauld@exploratorium.edu, www.exo.net/~pauld
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