This has some chilling consequences: because entropy only increases, eventually, very, very, very, very far in the future, the universe will reach some maximum amount of disorder, which goes by the cozy sounding name of “the heat death of the universe.” In this state, the whole universe will be at the same temperature, which means everything will be completely disordered, with no little useful pockets of ordered structure (like humans). Until then, creating local pockets of order by making compensating pockets of disorder is only possible because the universe has not yet reached maximum
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