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Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated

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Second law of thermodynamics
Introduction to entropy
Entropy and life

9/30/2018 Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated https://jamesclear.com/entropy 1/11 JAMES CLEAR Entropy: Why Life Always Seems to Get More Complicated by James Clear (staging.jamesclear.com/about)????| ???? Mental Models (https://jamesclear.com/mental-models) Murphy's Law states, ?Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.? This pithy statement references the annoying tendency of life to cause trouble and make things difficult. Problems seem to arise naturally on their own, while solutions always require our attention, energy, and effort. Life never seems to just work itself out for us. If anything, our lives become more complicated and gradually decline into disorder rather than remaining simple and structured. Why is that?

Reactions and Enzymes

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Entropy

Endergonic and exergonic | Back to Top Energy releasing processes, ones that "generate" energy, are termed exergonic reactions. Reactions that require energy to initiate the reaction are known as endergonic reactions. All natural processes tend to proceed in such a direction that the disorder or randomness of the universe increases (the second law of thermodynamics). Time-energy graphs of an exergonic reaction (top) and endergonic reaction (bottom). Images from Purves et al., Life: The Science of Biology, 4th Edition, by Sinauer Associates (www.sinauer.com) and WH Freeman (www.whfreeman.com), used with permission. Oxidation/Reduction | Back to Top
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