the second law of thermodynamics

基本解釋

For example, that there's a lack of transitional fossils and that the second law of thermodynamics makes evolution impossible.
例如，缺乏漸進性過渡生物化石，熱力學(xué)第二定律証明了進化論是不可能的，等等。
The British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow once said that a nonscientist who didn't know the second law of thermodynamics was like a scientist who had never read Shakespeare.
英國物理學(xué)家和小說家C·P斯諾曾說過一個不是科學(xué)家的人不知道熱力學(xué)定律的話就如同一個科學(xué)家未曾看過莎士比亞的著作一般。
This, in a nutshell, is the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy (a measure of the disorder) in a closed physical system never decreases.
簡單來說，熱力學(xué)第二定律表明在一個封閉的系統(tǒng)中，熵是不會降低的。

It's almost as important as the second law of thermodynamics, which you'll see in a week or so.
幾乎同熱力學(xué)第二定律,一樣重要，你們將在接下來的幾周時間裡看到這點。
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