The Playboy Forum

October, 1979

Erotic EntropyI teach physics at a large Midwestern university. Every spring, attendance at my lectures drops sharply, for a reason that is obvious: The students are more interested in asses than in classes.According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is gradually declining, in a process called entropy, to a state in which all order has disappeared and all energy has been used up. I can't help but think the universe is becoming more erotic, as well as chaotic.My hypothesis is supp...