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The emergence of life with increasing order and complexity does not contradict the second law of thermodynamics, which states that overall entropy never decreases, since a living organism creates order in some places (e.g. its living body) at the expense of an increase of entropy elsewhere (e.g. heat and waste production). [160] [161] [162]
Research concerning the relationship between the thermodynamic quantity entropy and both the origin and evolution of life began around the turn of the 20th century. In 1910 American historian Henry Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a theory of history based on the second law of ...
Therefore, the thermodynamic entropy, which is proportional to the marginal entropy, must also increase with time [8] (note that "not too long" in this context is relative to the time needed, in a classical version of the system, for it to pass through all its possible microstates—a time that can be roughly estimated as , where is the time ...
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However, there is a broad class [18] of systems that manifest entropy-driven order, in which phases with organization or structural regularity, e.g. crystals, have higher entropy than structurally disordered (e.g. fluid) phases under the same thermodynamic conditions. In these systems phases that would be labeled as disordered by virtue of ...
The program is solvable in polynomial time if the graph has all undirected or all directed edges. Variants include the rural postman problem. [3]: ND25, ND27 Clique cover problem [2] [3]: GT17 Clique problem [2] [3]: GT19 Complete coloring, a.k.a. achromatic number [3]: GT5 Cycle rank; Degree-constrained spanning tree [3]: ND1
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The film stars Paul Mescal (Lucius) as an enslaved man who finds purpose as a gladiator after his home is conquered by tyrant emperors.