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heat death

n.
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.
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heat death

n
(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
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heat death

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It could be imminent, or the economy could chug along until the heat death of the universe or, as we might call it, the Greatest Depression.
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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.
They cover the dialectics of organic and inorganic relations; the origins of ecological economics: Podolinsky and Marx-Engels; classical Marxism and energetics; Engels, entropy, and the heat death hypothesis; the reproduction of economy and society; and Marx and metabolic restoration.
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.
Secured loans have thus always carried lower interest rates than unsecured loans, and will do so until the heat death of the universe renders moot such questions.
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If you're quick to go away then it'll just search over where you've been and we extrapolate that out for the rest of the game and the other mechanics." Alien: Isolation won VideoGamer.com's coveted 'Most Likely To Help Us Forget About The Impending Heat Death Of The Universe' award during E3 last week, and Steve thinks it has the potential to do "the franchise justice".
Agathocleous's concise introduction to The Secret Agent situates the novel in terms of its publication history, its relation to Conrad's interests and oeuvre, its critique of Victorian mores and genres, contemporary concerns about anarchism and violence, its connection to literary naturalism and the themes of degeneration and heat death, and its afterlife in contemporary culture.
When the universe suffers its heat death in a few trillion years, no one will be around to witness the event.
Sex, fractals, poetry, the heat death of the universe, and the joy and frustration of academic life frame a contest between reason and emotion.
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