The long arm of the second law.

• Autores: J. Miguel Rubí
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 299, Nº. 5, 2008, págs. 62-67
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on ways in which order emerges from chaos in nature, despite the second law of thermodynamics, which states that a system in equilibrium tends toward chaos, and not the reverse. Nature rarely finds a perfect equilibrium, and the author states that even in chaos, there can be smaller pockets of equilibrium. The author discusses a theory for nonequilibrium thermodynamics, which would explain instances where apparent chaos leads to order.