On 19 March 2014 15:55, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
> So an expanding universe should give rise to increasing maximum > entropy, but the total energy remains constant (at zero). As for what > happens to the free energy (stuff available for work), its a bit more > complicated, but it appears that processes reducing the free energy > (or increasing the entropy, as its the same thing) are not currently > keeping up with the increase in maximum entropy caused by an expanding > universe. > > This is the bottom line, in a nutshell. As long as the entropy ceiling goes on rising, the energy available to do work decreases, I think asymptotially, but is never reduced to zero. (Hence we might still have conscious beings made from electron-positron "atoms" larger than the current Hubble radius in the year 1 googol... perhaps) I'm not sure what happens when the available energy reaches the zero point level, though? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
