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OCR: It is a matter of common experience that tthings get more disordered and chaotic with time This observation can be elevated to the status of a law, the so-called Second Law of Thermodynamics This says that the total amount of disorder or entropy in the universe always increases with time. However the Law refers only to the total amount of disorder The orderin one body can increaseprovidedthat the amount of disorder in its surroundings increases by a greater amount This is what happens ina living being Itisa commor things