Friday, 4 December 2015

thermodynamics - What are the phenomena responsible for irreversible increase in entropy?


https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140416-times-arrow-traced-to-quantum-source


This article says that entanglement drives the arrow of time of increasing entropy towards thermodynamic equilibrium:



Cups of coffee cool, buildings crumble and stars fizzle out, physicists say, because of a strange quantum effect called “entanglement.”




It is hard to believe that entropy is rooted in a quantum phenomenon. Is there any other possible explanation?




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