Still, in the Second Law, which was the third because they started at zero, he was reminded of a truth obvious to all householders. Just as heat bled out into cold and not the reverse, so order bled out into chaos and never in reverse. A complex entity like a person eventually died and became a disordered pile of disparate bits which must begin to move apart. The dead never sprang into ordered life, never became the living, whatever the bishops might say or pretend to believe. Entropy was a troubling and beautiful concept that lay at the heart of much human toil and sorrow. Everything,
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