{"id":31600,"date":"2016-11-01T22:47:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/physicists-might-have-found-a-way-to-break-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:05:53","slug":"physicists-might-have-found-a-way-to-break-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/physicists-might-have-found-a-way-to-break-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics","title":{"rendered":"Physicists might have found a way to break the Second Law of Thermodynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-might-have-found-a-way-to-break-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The laws of thermodynamics are some of the most important principles in modern physics, because they define how three fundamental physical quantities \u2014 temperature, energy, and entropy \u2014 behave under various circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>But now physicists say they\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anl.gov\/articles\/argonne-researchers-posit-way-locally-circumvent-second-law-thermodynamics\">found a loophole<\/a> in one of these laws, and it could create scenarios in which entropy \u2014 or disorder \u2014 actually decreases with time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to modern physics, almost everything in the Universe can be explained according to two theories: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-art-and-beauty-of-general-relativity\">general relativity<\/a> for the big stuff like stars, galaxies, and the Universe itself; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-evidence-could-totally-break-our-understanding-of-quantum-mechanics\">quantum mechanics<\/a>, for behaviours on the atomic scale.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-say-they-ve-found-a-way-to-break-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-say-they-ve-found-a-w...modynamics<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laws of thermodynamics are some of the most important principles in modern physics, because they define how three fundamental physical quantities \u2014 temperature, energy, and entropy \u2014 behave under various circumstances. But now physicists say they\u2019ve found a loophole in one of these laws, and it could create scenarios in which entropy \u2014 or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65867,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31600\/revisions\/65867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}