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Though it may appear discouraging to think about entropy's relentless pull, the good news is that it’s possible to counteract this trend by exerting energy. In personal lives and society, individuals can fight against chaos by organizing, cleaning, and nurturing relationships. Nonetheless, this requires constant diligence and effort, as, without it, the natural course leans toward disorder.
The Cosmic Perspective of Entropy
To better understand entropy, consider it not merely as disorder but as a measure of the different possible arrangements within a system that do not alter its observable energy or state. When pondering why the universe doesn’t exist in a state of maximum entropy, we recall its beginnings—after the Big Bang, when it was theorized to have had low entropy.