The second law of thermodynamics states that spontaneous processestend to be accompanied by entropy increase. Consider, however, thefollowing spontaneous processes:
the growth of plants from simple seeds to well-organizedsystems
the growth of a fertilized egg from a single cell to a complexadult organism
the formation of snowflakes from molecules of liquid water withrandom motion to a highly ordered crystal
the growth of organized knowledge over time
In all these cases, systems evolve to a state of less disorder andlower entropy, apparently violating the second law ofthermodynamics. Could we, then, consider them as processesoccurring in systems that are not isolated?
True or False?
