... ones. Now,early in the 21st, another shift appears imminent, this one involving the second law of thermodynamics. Over the last 20 years the absolute status of the second law has come underincreased ... 32210.3.3 Life in the Far Future 32410.4 The Second Law Mystique 327References 331Color Plates 335Index 343Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics 4 Challenges to the Second Law In this, ... similar lines, but work with an set of distinct states, rather than a continuous space of them. For them, the second law is a theorem arising out of the ordering of the states via adiabatic accessibility.Details...