What does the 'heat death' of the universe have to do with quality of energy?

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Messiah Whitney

Chemistry

4 September, 23:33

What does the 'heat death' of the universe have to do with quality of energy?

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Ayanna · Answer 1

Heat death refers to the 2nd law of thermodynamics which states that entropy trends increases in an isolated system. Thus hypothesized that the universe would last for an amount of time enough until it reaches a state that all energy is equally distributed.