The second question that you might think we'd want to get clear on is, "What's the idea, or what's the concept, of surviving?"

第二个你要,弄清楚的问题是,活着的概念是什么

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The second law is going to define entropy, and is going to tell us about the direction of time, something that conceptually we, clearly, understand but is going to put a mathematical foundation on which way does time go.

第二定律定义了熵，它告诉我们,时间的流向，虽然我们清楚地,知道这个概念,但还是要为时间流动的方向,建立一个数学基础。

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