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Wikipedia .....On the heels of this definition, that same year (1865), the most infamous version of the second law was read in a presentation at the Philosophical Society of Zurich on April 24th, in which, in the end of his presentation, Clausius concludes:
The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
This statement is the best-known phrasing of the second law. Moreover, owing to the general broadness of the terminology used here, e.g. universe, as well as lack of specific conditions, e.g. open, closed, or isolated, to which this statement applies, many people take this simple statement to mean that the second law of thermodynamics applies virtually to every subject imaginable. This, of course, is not true; this statement is only a simplified version of a more complex description.
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Entropy is a scientist's measure of randomness.... greater the entropy greater the randomness.
other definitions given include .... these may give a better sense of the second law.
In an isolated system, a process can occur only if it increases the total entropy of the system.
Heat cannot spontaneously flow from a material at lower temperature to a material at higher temperature.
It is impossible to convert heat completely into work.
this is after two minutes research on Wiki????
regarding rotation of the planets.....by your argument... weather patterns should always spin in the same direction of earth? In practice ....opposite directions north and south of the equator....why friction and turbulence.
Similar arguments would apply in space.
If I had to invoke god everytime I did not understand something?
all the best
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being Christmas Day ..... I googled second law of thermodynamics and god and found
this. I think it fairly accurately represents the science and does it with a Christian perspective. I'd be interested in your thoughts on this article
DC
Hope you are having a good Christmas.