Peregrini
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I don't have time this morning to give you the complete answer which you deserve. I will try this evening. Here for now is a bit more on my reason. Last time I checked the second law of thermodynamics was pretty valid.
Thermodynamic entropy is a non-conserved state function that is of great importance in the sciences of physics and chemistry.[4][5] Historically, the concept of entropy evolved in order to explain why some processes (permitted by conservation laws) occur spontaneously while their time reversals (also permitted by conservation laws) do not; systems tend to progress in the direction of increasing entropy.[6][7] For isolated systems, entropy never decreases.[5] This fact has several important consequences in science: first, it prohibits "perpetual motion" machines; and second, it implies the arrow of entropy has the same directionality as the arrow of time. Increases in entropy correspond to irreversible changes in a system, because some energy is expended as waste heat, limiting the amount of work a system can do..[4][8][8][9][10][11]
4.^ a b c McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Chemistry, 2004
5.^ a b Sandler S. I., Chemical and Engineering Thermodynamics, 3rd Ed. Wiley, New York, 1999 p. 91
6.^ McQuarrie D. A., Simon J. D., Physical Chemistry: A Molecular Approach, University Science Books, Sausalito 1997 p. 817
7.^ Haynie, Donald, T. (2001). Biological Thermodynamics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-79165-0.
8.^ a b Cutnell, John, D.; Johnson, Kenneth, J. (1998). Physics, 4th ed.. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.. ISBN 0-471-19113-2.
9.^ a b Sethna, J. Statistical Mechanics Oxford University Press 2006 p. 78
10.^ a b Oxford Dictionary of Science, 2005
11.^ de Rosnay, Joel (1979). The Macroscope – a New World View (written by an M.I.T.-trained biochemist). Harper & Row, Publishers. ISBN 0-06-011029-5.
