09/04/2026
"This is where geoscientist Robert M. Hazen and astrobiologist Michael L. Wong come in. The two researchers, both at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, believe the second law of thermodynamics doesn’t tell the whole story. Instead, another law, previously unnoticed (or at least given short shrift), is driving certain kinds of physical systems toward increasing order. They wrote about this idea in a 2023 paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and now they’ve expanded on it further in their new book, Time’s Second Arrow: Evolution, Order, and a New Law of Nature."
These Scientists Are Proposing a New Law of Nature: Entropy isn’t the final word. Time also brings order to the universe.
