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TIMES ARROW ---- MURPHY'S LAW ---- ENTROPY

In chemistry Murphy's law is related to the
2nd law of thermodynamics and entropy. To see
the similarities it is first necessary to 
understand the 2nd law:
The 2nd law of thermodynamics describes how the 
material world --- of energy and matter works:

"Energy spontaneously tends to flow only from 
being concentrated in one place to becoming 
diffused and spread out".

The Chinese symbol for entropy (2nd law) is in the 
in the background of this page.

The perfect illustration is: a hot frying
pan cools down when it is taken off the 
heat. This is a very simple model without 
going into the complex maths involved.
All types of energy behave like that in
the hot pan and become diffused: electricity
in a power line, loud sounds, boulders rolling
down a mountain etc, get it?.

The 2nd law summaries that totally different
events involving all kinds of energy have a 
common cause, and occur for the same reason, the
tendency for the dispersal of concentrated energy.

The 2nd law explains generalities around the 
world relative to a number of basic principles.

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