…this idea. It seems to be naive philosophically and it seems also not in congruence with the observable facts of nature. Prygosian made his reputation by attacking the second law of thermodynamics which was thought to be the most inviolate law in nature,…

…down and that order and energy is dissipated ultimately as heat, and that disorder is the destiny of all organized systems. Prygosian showed that this is not true in classical chemical systems. He established what is called the principle of order through…