If i understand the physics right, any kind of order/information will eventually decay into chaos. With the ultimate of that being the heat (gradient) death of the universe.
The scond law of thermodynamics says that the total entropy of a system always increases. It doesn't prohibit local entropy decreases. So a part of a system (newspaper, archive, planet) can maintain or increase its order.
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If i understand the physics right, any kind of order/information will eventually decay into chaos. With the ultimate of that being the heat (gradient) death of the universe.