[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Second law of thermodynamics says that all tends toward disorder—that entropy is constantly increasing.

Sure, if everything were steam engines. The law is much more general than that.

I have to spend $6000 this month on lowering my house's entrophy. Dry rot.

[RightWhale]

Time has nothing to do with the second law of thermodynamics. Temperature does.

[ok_now]

The law is much more general than that.

I have to spend $6000 this month on lowering my house's entrophy. Dry rot.

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is a law of physics that requires that the entropy of system cannot decrease unless the entropy of its environment increases by a greater amount. That is all it states.

Please name a process required by evolution would cause a decrease of entropy in a closed system not compensated for by an increase in the entropy of its surroundings, because I am at loss to think of one or find one.

If you disagree that this is what the 2nd Law states, please direct me to a reliable physics source that explains other generalizable consequences of the 2nd Law, because I am not aware of any, nor can I find any on my own.

[stormer]

“I have to spend $6000 this month on lowering my house’s entrophy. Dry rot.”

“Dry rot” is a biological process caused by fungi, it is not a consequence of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Also, I enjoyed the illustration depicting the inevitable decline that is a result of order moving towards disorder. I only wish I had seen it before all those physics and chemistry classes I took; just think of the effort and money I could have saved.