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title: "How I learned to stop worrying and…no, I’ve always adored entropy"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-no-i-ve-always-adored-entropy-kflv66w90
source_url: https://quantumfrontiers.com/2026/04/12/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-andno-ive-always-adored-entropy/
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source: "Quantum Frontiers"
published: 2026-04-13T00:33:33.041Z
updated: 2026-04-13T00:33:53.597Z
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 0
comments: 2
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# How I learned to stop worrying and…no, I’ve always adored entropy

**[Quantum Frontiers](https://daily.dev/sources/quantumfrontiers)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

A theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist reflects on her lifelong affinity for reducing entropy, drawing parallels between childhood tidying habits, PhD research in quantum information theory, and the philosophical concept of 'mattering' from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's book. Rather than framing entropy as an adversary to life, she proposes that organisms partner with entropy by generating it in their environments to sustain order locally, as illustrated through examples like desalination and human metabolism.

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**@fabianletsch** · 1 upvotes

> This is absolutely right: You can only reduce entropy by creating more of it somewhere.
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> You also cannot clean something up without making something else dirty. Question that sentence, its interesting.

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