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This will occur unless the system is re-charged with additional outside energy. A concrete example is less confusing. Imagine a new automobile just coming off the assembly line. It has taken a great deal of energy to find, refine, forge, weld, and paint the metal parts of this car alone. This same concept also applies to all the other components of the car. This energy and organization constitute a highly organized state, or, said another way, a state of negative entropy. What happens next illustrates entropy. The car is purchased. Whether it is driv V