>Even if you have a rock that looks exactly like a human being, say one of Phidias' statues, it will decay until it looks like every other rock given enough time and exposure to the elements.
The same is true of living things. Given enough time, anything living is reduced to a pile of oxides.
Some physical processes decrease entropy locally, sometimes by incredible amounts. That's how we have the sun. What we really take from the sun is not energy, but its stored negative entropy; energy is just the medium to move it around.
The same is true of living things. Given enough time, anything living is reduced to a pile of oxides.
Some physical processes decrease entropy locally, sometimes by incredible amounts. That's how we have the sun. What we really take from the sun is not energy, but its stored negative entropy; energy is just the medium to move it around.