The Theory of Reverse Entropy

What is the meaning and limit of life? What is dark matter? Could magic really exist?

At last, Fu Bin touched the most wondrous side of this world. In fact, entropy energy exists in the real world, too. If humans evolved from electric eels, then perhaps everyone would be able to use magic.

Entropy is the degree of disorder in a System. The lower the entropy, the more orderly it is, and the more energy it contains. According to the second law of thermodynamics, the disorder (entropy) of an isolated system always increases and never decreases.

Since the release of energy must be accompanied by an increase in entropy, the second-generation perpetual motion machine was rendered impossible by this law. Yet one thing in the universe is an exception: living systems. All living things are anti-entropic, using every means at their disposal to lower their own entropy. Humans are especially adept at this, so living systems can be called second-generation perpetual motion machines.

However, the anti-entropy process of life is passed upward in stages, from primitive organisms to intelligent beings. For example, the mechanisms that make all life on Earth anti-entropic ultimately rely on plants and microorganisms at the very bottom of the food chain. And there is a limit to how much humans can reduce their own entropy.

In fact, cultivation in novels really is a form of reversing entropy, one with a very high ceiling. So it is not unreasonable for people here to call increasing entropy energy cultivation.