Heat Death Definition

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The eventual dispersion of all of the energy within a physical system to a completely uniform distribution of heat energy, that is, to maximum entropy. The Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts heat death for all macroscopic physical systems.

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heat death

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heat-deaths

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