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Death
In nature, death is the termination of life. [1] In 1944, Austrian physicist physicist Erwin Schrödinger defined death, thermodynamically, as "the dangerous state of maximum entropy". [2] This likely stems from English physicist William Thomson's 1851 ideas on the "heat death" of the universe. [3] The study of what happens to a person when they die, according to the laws of thermodynamics, is called cessation thermodynamics. [4]
Author Stephen Haines, an engineer, management consultant, and human systems theorist, states, based on extrapolations of the heat death theory, that entropy refers to the natural characteristic of all living systems to eventually slow down and die. [5]
References
1. Death (definition) - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2000), CD-Rom, version 2.5.
2. Schrödinger, Erwin. (1944). What is Life? (ch. 6 “Order, Disorder, and Entropy). pgs. 67-75 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Thomson, William. (1862). “On the age of the sun’s heat”, Macmillan’s Mag., 5, 288-93; PL, 1, 394-68.
4. Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), (preview), Ch 16: section "Cessation Thermodynamics", (693-699). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
5. Haines, Stephen G. (2000). The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning, (pg. 19). HRD Press.
Author Stephen Haines, an engineer, management consultant, and human systems theorist, states, based on extrapolations of the heat death theory, that entropy refers to the natural characteristic of all living systems to eventually slow down and die. [5]
References
1. Death (definition) - Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2000), CD-Rom, version 2.5.
2. Schrödinger, Erwin. (1944). What is Life? (ch. 6 “Order, Disorder, and Entropy). pgs. 67-75 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
3. Thomson, William. (1862). “On the age of the sun’s heat”, Macmillan’s Mag., 5, 288-93; PL, 1, 394-68.
4. Thims, Libb. (2007). Human Chemistry (Volume Two), (preview), Ch 16: section "Cessation Thermodynamics", (693-699). Morrisville, NC: LuLu.
5. Haines, Stephen G. (2000). The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking and Learning, (pg. 19). HRD Press.
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