The Last Question reversal of entropy

[Alan McDougall]

Have a look at this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isY_u--uvqg

[galaxy_storm]

The video starts of with a false assumption, "What will happen when all the energy in the universe is consumed?" Energy can't be 'consumed' or destroyed, only transformed into another form.

[no_leaf_clover]

I think what they were referring to was not destroying energy,  but the state of the universe when everything has already been rendered down to its simplest parts and everything is at equilibrium.  Because entropy in thermodynamics dictates that energy is always lost in transfer from one thing to another, and eventually anything is going to break down to dust, so to speak, whether it be a machine or a human body.

The counter-acting force to entropy is found in nature as life/biological processes.  Information is now recognized as a form of complex energy, because information allows things like humans to organize matter in a way that defies entropy, and puts things back together and creates more potential energy rather than just letting everything degrade to nothing.  And on a human level,  if information is energy,  then hate and fear represent forces of entropy while love and compassion bring things together and represent the force that defies entropy.