The eventual dispersion of all of the energy within a physical system to a completely uniform distribution of heat energy, that is, to maximum entropy. The Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts heat death for all macroscopic physical systems.
(General Physics) thermodynamics the condition of any closed system when its total entropy is a maximum and it has no available energy. If the universe is a closed system, it should eventually reach this state
If we apply this principle at the level of the universe, it will eventually lead to the so-called "heat death of the universe", when the outbound and inbound energy fluxes of galaxies reach an equilibrium that should stay at low temperature provided that the universe does not maintain its present energy differential between the vacuum and its denser parts.
And so my third beginning is to argue that the specific example of media proliferation can become a synecdoche for all the other proliferations, because the only thing that ever actually proliferates is noise: noise in the form of error, in the form of entropy, in the form, ultimately, of the heat death of the universe, depending on how far one is willing to take things.
In The End, Phil Torres has created a thoroughly researched treatise of doom, investigating fates as cosmic as the heat death of the universe and as provincial as a terrorist nuclear attack.
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