My second law, your second law, ordains that local order, structure in space and time, be crafted in ever-so-losing contention with proximal disorder in this neat but getting messier universe.


The Metamict State, The Devil Teaches Thermodynamics (p. 3)


My second law, your second law, ordains that local order, structure in space and time, be crafted in ever-so-losing contention with proximal disorder ...

My second law, your second law, ordains that local order, structure in space and time, be crafted in ever-so-losing contention with proximal disorder ...

My second law, your second law, ordains that local order, structure in space and time, be crafted in ever-so-losing contention with proximal disorder ...

My second law, your second law, ordains that local order, structure in space and time, be crafted in ever-so-losing contention with proximal disorder ...