Re[2]: philosophical curiosity in a long summer afternoon

[TDC@ehssun.lbl.gov]

>Brian Gaulke
>07/23/98 10:44 AM

>No.   Entropy was the furthest thing from my mind.  But, since you mention
>it, entropy would be expected to increase where ever heat is being added
>to a system.

That may not have been what you MEANT to say but infact your whole query
about using energy from stored sources and depleting energy (I don't have
you exact words handy) was merely an observation that entropy increases.
And THAT is a basic premise of physics that in a natural system entrophy
will ALWAYS increase - and thus the entropy of the universe is constantly
increasing (setting aside for the moment the oscillatory theory).