\section{The Second Law of Thermodynamics}

\lettrine[lraise=0.15]{T}{he} Second Law of Thermodynamics says, in essence, that everything runs down, falls apart, degrades over time. That Chaos has the last word. 

But even though things inexorably run down --- even though chaos increases in the long run --- the Second Law does allow for pockets, islands of less Chaos, that buck the trend.

It's just that if there's a pocket of less chaos \textit{here}, there has to be extra chaos somewhere \textit{else} to balance things out.

Yet, we're surrounded of examples of the Cosmos being drawn to greater and greater order and complexity. In seeming defiance of the Second Law.
