h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

is it kinda like the whole thing where a number divided by another number any number of times will never reach 0?

so, if the amount of enthropy increases(or decreases, I don't know) by say 1% every year it would never reach perfection becouse even one percent of 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 still isn't 0(assuming 0 is perfection) am I understaning this right?

I don't know _how_ entropy reaches its maximum. It's an intersting question, but I don't think that anyone knows this. All we can say is that it never decreases and that there is an upper limit.

I'm not an expert though.

Perhaps it's not that entropy reaches a maximum, but rather that order -- non-entropy -- reaches a minimum. If entropy must continue to increase, it logically follows that eventually, the very bonds between sub-atomic particles would fall apart. Logic also holds that large-scale orderly bonds would be the first things to go.

Of course, Life, the Universe, and Everything is so often illogical that I don't think anything I've said above can be at all assumed to be accurate, even if my logic is perfect.

How do you define order? If eg order = 1 / entropy, your statement is trivial. By the way, I think the particles themselves will fall apart before the inner nuclear bonds will do. Otherwise, the last element would be hydrogen. But I _think_ it will be iron. I don't know for sure however. I've never thought about it or read something about it.