Friday, 20 March 2015

cosmology - How does the formation of a solar system not break the second law of thermodynamics?


Please forgive: I am a layman when it comes to physics and cosmology, and have tried finding an answer to this that I can understand, with no luck.



As I understand it, the solar system evolved from a massive molecular cloud. To me, this seems to break the second law of thermodynamics, as I think it suggests order from disorder.


I know there must be something wrong with my logic, but am really stuck.


Can anyone explain this one in layman's terms?


(Posting to both "Astronomy" and "Physics", as it seems to overlap these subjects)




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