Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics - Entropy
The second law of thermo dynamics says that entropy is always increasing with time, or at least never decreases with time. So it's getting bigger and bigger and bigger, which means that the randomness of the disorder in the universe is increasing with time. The most impressive piece of evidence that the big bang ever took place? Well, there as this thing called the microa background. It won the nobell prize on two quite separate occasions. And they have a character which is very precisely measured if if you plot the intensity for different frequencies against the frequency ogt this curve. This was explained by max plank a in just the beginning of the twentieth century, and in a very important piece of
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