Short Cuts: What It Costs to Live
Arianne Shahvisi, 21 April 2022
Erwin Schrödinger is best known for his cat, suspended in a state of being both dead and alive. Less well known is ‘Schrödinger’s paradox’, which describes the apparent contradiction between life and the second law of thermodynamics. The second law rules that the entropy – usually glossed as the measure of disorder – of an isolated system...