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Re: Question of the Day: What Does the Earth Get From the Sun?

By: Fiz in GRITZ | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 29 Jun 25 7:59 PM | 12 view(s)
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Good answers, De and Zim!

Here is the fascinating specific story from the Youtube from which I got the question!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA

The Most Misunderstood Concept in Physics

One of the most important, yet least understood, concepts in all of physics is...entropy.

And "The early universe only had about 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3% of the entropy it has now."

Entropy creates the "arrow of time". In either low or high entropy states, complexity (like life) is not possible.

So..."Let's make use of the low entropy we've got, while we can!" 'Cause it is clearly running out!


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Question of the Day: What Does the Earth Get From the Sun?
By: Fiz in GRITZ
Sun, 29 Jun 25 3:25 PM 		Msg. 10560 of 10597

Anticipating you are going to say something like "warmth" or "light", I am going to ask another question:

How much of the warmth or light the earth gets each day does it radiate back into space?

But if the earth radiated back into space less than the amount of it got, wouldn't the earth's temperature climb higher every day until water boiled and earth became more like Venus?

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