In a closed system, I rise with time, showing chaos in a dance so sublime. What am I?
Category: Science · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Think about the direction of processes in thermodynamics.
Answer
Disorder
Explanation
Entropy measures the disorder of a system, and according to the second law of thermodynamics, it tends to increase over time.
This is a expert science riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is Disorder.
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