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Old 06-May-2008, 11:23 AM
Ivan Viehoff Ivan Viehoff is offline
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Originally Posted by mike alexander View Post
Plants and animals maintain a lower state of entropy by increasing the entropy in their surroundings.
Getting rather off topic, if energy is input, then the local reduced entropy is at the "cost" of increasing the entropy in the source that supplied the energy. So life on earth can reduce the net entropy of the earth by being powered by the sun. Across the universe, the energy supplied by gravitational collapse in effect is an almost unlimited engine to reduce entropy.
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