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Nature,

the universe,

our own existence,

are ruled by laws that are well known.

Laws that nothing

and nobody can escape.

These laws are extremely precise.

So precise that they are expressed through the language of mathematics.

The laws of nature we have yet to discover

cannot be that different from the ones we already know.

We are getting close to completing a description of the universe,

to understanding how reality actually works.

Nevertheless, the scientific community had overlooked something until now:

the strange and deep relationship between those laws

and our own emotional behavior.

You are about to find out how the laws of physics

can be applied to the emotions that rule our daily routine.

And including, especially,

those of a much lesser-known discipline:

Thermodynamics!

Okay, what are thermodynamics?

Can any of you tell me?

Don't everyone raise your hand at once,

you'll confuse me.

As the name indicates, thermodynamics

is the study of the movement of heat.

Specifically, the ways in which energy is transformed.

Because as you already know, energy can take many forms.

This is Manel Suarez,

he'll be my assistant during the course.

Please go easy on him.

Manel spent his weekend building

this little steamboat for you,

which works thanks to the laws of thermodynamics.

Please, everyone come closer.

Quickly.

Take these seats.

Manel, explain how it works before the demonstration.

Okay, um...

This little bowl contains the fuel that will feed the flame,

the flame will heat the water in this tank...

Once heated, the water will expand

and come out of these two small tubes, propelling the boat.

That's so, Manel.

Beautiful.

Let's try it out.

Here, take mine.

Looks like it won't light...

That's all right.

What you're seeing

also responds to the principles of thermodynamics.

The principles we're talking about not only rule our lives

completely, they will also finally determine

our fate and that of the entire universe.

Prepare yourselves, on the shoulders of giants,

for a new leap in the history of science.

Welcome to the passionate and terrifying world of...

THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS A DOCUMENTARY BY MANEL SUAREZ

Thermodynamics is present in everything we encounter

from the world around us to ourselves

and our machines of everyday life.

We cannot get away from it.

Quantum physics, astronomy

and even biology,

all are embedded in thermodynamics.

It is sort of a surprising that the theory that was

developed to prove steam powered machines

has ended up with such deep philosophical consequences.

Novelist and culture analyst, C. P. Snow

once said that every educated person

should know the second law of thermodynamics.

And that not knowing it was like

having never read a work of Shakespeare.

In order to discuss thermodynamics,

we need to refer to a system.

In this case, let's take the "humanity" system,

with its thousands of individual particles

moving and interacting with each other.

And we'll focus on a few of those particles.

For example, the Manel-particle...

and the Elena-particle,

who still haven't met.

The first thing we must know

is that all thermodynamic systems tend towards equilibrium.

But don't be fooled by how nice this word sounds.

It's precisely the lack

of equilibrium that could give the Manel and Elena particles

the chance to meet and interact,

to build something together.

Equilibrium in this case means the dispersion of the particles

and the absence of activity, of heat exchange.

Unfortunately, that's what we tend to move towards.

You're sleeping over at my place tomorrow. I have to get up early.

Me too.

How was your first day of class?

Did the boat work?

Wonderfully, like an outboard.

My super physicist aeronautical naval industrial nuclear engineer.

I bet all the girls were making eyes at you.

One of them did.

I love how you lie to me to make me horny.

Have you done everything yet?

Wash the dishes, sweep the floor, air out the flat,

lock the front door twice?

Then the Raquel-Manuel physical system is ready to fuck.

You still need to get your things ready for tomorrow.

And super romantic.

You've got it all.

But let's go straight to heat exchange

and the laws of thermodynamics.

The first law of thermodynamics is very well known,

Energy is neither created or destroyed, it simply transforms.

What?

It simply what?

It's transformed, it's turned into something else.

ONE MONTH LATER

Into what?

- I don't know, into affection. - Affection?

That's what I feel for my dog.

Not that kind, it's more special.

But last night we fucked and you said you loved me.

I was your proton and you were my electron.

- You called me pickles. - Well, I mainly called you Raquel.

What are you talking about? What happened?

Love doesn't just transform overnight!

Well, it wasn't overnight.

Oh, it wasn't overnight.

No, it wasn't.

ONE YEAR LATER

We decided to take a break 3 months ago.

Two months, 18 days and 6 hours since you asked for time.

Exactly, it wasn't overnight.

- You're not telling me the truth. - What?

I'm saying I don't love you anymore.

No, you're not telling me the whole truth.

What else do you want me to say?

- Why did your love transform? - I already told you.

Love doesn't just transform overnight!

- You're going into a loop. - No, I'm not.

- Say it. - Say what?

What your love has really turned into.

- You really want to know? - You owe me that.

Into indifference.

You think I'm stupid?

Indifference is what's left when love has turned into something else.

I don't understand you.

You understand me perfectly. Say it.

Please, say it.

Please.

Say it!

There's someone else.

There's someone else.

ONE MONTH LATER - ONE YEAR LATER

The first law of thermodynamics is that in every system,

provided that they are isolated,

the energy will transform

but the amount of energy in the system is always the same.

Another thing is let's say the quality

of that energy after it's transformation.

The quality can degrade so it can turns from

one type of useful energy to the form of heat.

Which brings us to the second law of thermodynamics.

- Wait a second! - Wait a second!

But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

To fully understand what's happening,

we have to go back in time

to the moment where it all began.

An important person to establish universal scientific laws was Sir Newton.

He taught us that the universe could be understood

in accepted terms mathematically,

especially with his laws of motion and universal gravity.

The first law of motion, the law of inertia.

it states that if an object is moving and nothing touches it

if it is unperturbed, it will continue moving in a straight line

with a uniform speed forever.

Inertia. That's what's acting on the Manel-body at this moment.

And in general, up until this moment.

- Do you love me? - Madly.

But let's continue with the laws of motion.

The girl you see now, or Eva-body, will help us explain the second law.

A body accelerates in a proportional weight to the force applied upon it.

In this case, the force propelling Eva is named Rosa, who is also her mother.

She's been waiting for her for 15 minutes to have lunch.

And here we can see the effects of the third law.

The third law of motion states

that for every action applied to a body

there is a reaction force

that is equal in size and opposite in direction.

That's the action and reaction principle.

Action,

reaction.

But Newton's huge contribution doesn't end here,

nor the event that triggered our story.

Allow me to introduce the Pablo-body

and one of the key laws of physics and of this story:

The law of gravity

or attraction of bodies.

The law of gravity states that the gravitational attraction between two bodies

depends on the product of their masses

and also it's inversely proportional to the distance between them.

This law is so important that we should stop here for a second.

Newton's great intellectual leap was his understanding that gravity

was the reason why planets revolve around the sun

and why things fall to the ground here on Earth.

It explained a lot.

A body's gravity depends on its mass,

which we mustn't identify by its weight,

rather by the amount of attractive material.

That's why the Pablo-body and the fatso-body are the ones attracted,

the ones that fall towards the super-massive Elena-body,

and not the other way around.

The curious thing is although we know the formula thanks to Newton,

exactly what gravity is remains a mystery.

We don't actually know where it comes from

or why bodies actually attract each other,

but we know that they do.

Gravity.

It alone can set us in motion,

change the direction of our path,

or disintegrate us.

God, what happened?

I'm sorry, are you hurt?

- What a blow. You okay? - Yeah.

Jesus Christ, I cracked your head open. Why are you on the ground?

It had to be you.

You two know each other?

Did you do this on purpose?

I wouldn't be surprised if you planned it.

You're the one with the twisted mind here.

And no, it wasn't on purpose. I wasn't that bent on meeting you.

And yes, I'm okay. Are you?

Seeing stars, but okay, yeah.

I'm so sorry, I don't know what I was thinking.

We're okay, thank you!

Thank you.

Thanks.

We were meeting for a drink on the terrace.

Would you two like to join us while we recover?

Sure, no problem.

Okay, until my friend gets here.

That's Manel, I'm Pablo.

I'm Eva. Nice crashing into you.

Likewise.

I'm Manel.

No, thank you.

Elena, right?

You look great in all the photos. Spectacular.

But the campaign's a bit dull.

You know we publicists criticize everything.

Really? I never noticed.

What do you two do?

I'm a criminal lawyer. I recently opened

- my own office. - How brave.

You have no idea.

And you?

I'm an astrophysicist.

I'm writing a thesis about thermodynamics in complex systems.

Yeah?

- How interesting. - He's a genius at what he does.

Here is where it all began. Luckily gravity

isn't the only force of nature.

And how do thermodynamics work

- in complex systems? - It's very easy...

It's too bad there are so many super-massive bodies in the universe.

Oh, hi.

How are you?

Look, Pablo, Eva and...

Manel.

You ready? The others all came too.

Okay, I'll be right there.

- Don't worry about it, I've got it. - Thanks.

Well, it was nice crashing into you guys.

- Likewise. - A pleasure.

Shell-shocked.

Bye.

Elena!

Take my card.

Give me a call when the swelling goes down and we'll celebrate.

Right? All four of us. We're having fun.

Sure, whoever recovers first can call.

Okay, it's a deal.

Bye.

She's gorgeous, huh?

Yeah, she's okay.

You're not so bad yourself. Besides brave.

I'm going out for a drink tonight with Pablo.

And some people from his agency, I think.

Maybe Pablito will find himself a girlfriend...

Newton's laws are truly revolutionary.

But other brilliant minds before him also made amazing discoveries

Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei

started a new scientific era in the 16th century.

Previously, people thought the sun,

the planets,

the moon, all of them revolve around the Earth.

What Copernicus and Galileo said was, "Wake up, everybody."

We are the ones that revolve around the sun

like the other planets do.

Do you realize you've created a mini solar system on the dance floor?

You have a ton of planets of all types.

Look, giant planets... Desert planets...

Gaseous planets...

Red planets...

Even inhabited ones.

I was inhabited when I was 16 too.

For real.

Are you a planet too?

I'm Mercury. I'm burning up

as we speak.

Look, you even have a planet

with its own moon.

This discovery has caused a dramatic change because it meant

that the Earth was no longer at the center of the universe.

It was in fact just another planet,

another wondering body.

And the other great mind that made the work of Newton possible

was Kepler, with his laws for planetary orbits.

Look at that, I think your admirers are even following the same laws

as the planets around the sun.

- You're crazy. - Seriously. Kepler's laws.

If you watch closely, they're not going around in circles.

When they're behind you, they move further away.

And when they pass in front of you, they move closer.

So you'll look at them. They're actually following an ellipse.

They're filling the dance floor.

But since they don't want to look too desperate,

when they pass in front of you, they walk a little faster.

Are there more laws?

One more.

Planets which orbit further away

move more slowly. Probably because

you make the closer planets more nervous.

So if you get closer you'll get more nervous?

I'll start emitting ultraviolet radiation.

Here?

Here we're risking a cosmic collision.

You're crazy... but cute.

And so, the laws of classical physics were established.

But there was still much to discover.

Soon new cracks would appear in our understanding of the world,

and new questions would arise that would take a long time to answer.

- Wait a second! - Wait a second!

Who is it?

- Who is who? - Who do you think?

What does that matter now?

It's "Leoreennazo," right?

How do you know?

- You can't even lie. - What a shitty liar.

The bill... you asked me for.

Manel, don't do it.

Please, think about it.

I know you, she's not right for you.

Do whatever the fuck you want, I don't care.

But I'm telling you, that guy is going to fuck you up.

She's a top model. Mulatto. Everybody wants her.

An actor and a model. You know what that means?

His job is to fuck anything that moves!

You think she'll put up with your order and your obsessions like I do?

That she'll appreciate your absurd theories

about love and the laws of physics?

You think he'll settle for one model

when he can have one every day who are also actresses?

You're going to suffer even when you're on top.

I'll sit outside my door and watch your cadaver walk by.

I told you this would happen.

And while you were insisting that you needed to reflect,

you were fucking that jerk?

The fucking stud.

Thank God I saw it coming and had my guard up.

Otherwise you'd dump me and I would feel like shit right now.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves again.

Before we continue with thermodynamics,

we need to go back in the relationship and science

to the period of happy discoveries and faith in knowledge,

to the sweet peak of classical physics.

You're a grandfather!

This is my favorite corner.

Over the two centuries after Newton,

we were able to dive further and further into the secrets of matter...

Shit!

- Damn it! - Gross!

... and the forces that control it.

Please...

Don't touch me with that!

Gravity is a powerful force

when it comes to attracting bodies to each other.

But it stops being one once they've already been brought together.

When it come to short distances,

other forces become more important than gravity.

There are other three basic forces

that rule the behavior of molecular, atomic and subatomic particles.

So let's study these forces

in relation to our particular Manel-Elena atomic system.

The most famous of these other forces is the electromagnetic force,

which, over very short distances,

is vastly more intense than the gravitational force.

However the electromagnetic force can operate in two directions.

It can either be attractive or it can be repulsive.

The action of electromagnetism

is present in nearly everything, in every day's life.

Here we're risking a cosmic collision.

It's also responsible for everything that happens in chemistry and biology.

You're crazy... but cute.

Chemistry.

Chemistry is what made Elena choose me instead of Pablo that night.

It's also what makes everything flow smoothly between particles.

Okay, Elena...

It was a pleasure. You can call Pablo, you have his number,

- if you want to hook up sometime. - You don't want to come with me?

Good morning.

Or what causes that tingle

whenever we're about to see the other particle.

- You can't come in here. - I'm here to see Elena.

You're Manel?

Go ahead, you can stay on that side.

When the chemistry is intense,

you really feel the electricity.

I'll be done in a little while.

You're very organized, aren't you?

No. You think?

- Where's dinner? - In the oven.

And the dirty pans?

Or clean ones?

It's a question of method.

How about some wine, Mr. Method?

What's fascinating about science is everything can be explained.

For example, don't you think it's strange

that with all the advances we've made in biology,

we still don't know what life is?

That the famous mystery still hasn't been revealed?

I don't know, is it?

Maybe there's nothing to reveal.

That's what's amazing.

Life is probably just a consequence of how atoms organize themselves,

another step in the evolution of complex systems.

That's why I study them.

You're the one who's a complex system.

We're just a bunch of organized atoms.

Even if we think there's something divine about life and we're in charge,

everything is predetermined by a few basic rules.

How sad, right?

I don't know, I'd rather think there is a mystery

and that life is special.

If not, what's the point?

This bunch of organized atoms has decided it needs to go to the bathroom.

Actually, you didn't decide.

It was already decided before you decided.

You were saying?

No. No, I forgot.

The other two fundamental forces at work are much harder to detect,

because they only operate within the interior of the nucleus.

I'll start emitting ultraviolet radiation.

One of these forces causes radiation. This is call the weak nuclear force.

The weak force, like the electromagnetic force,

can either attract or it can repel.

But it does so only over the shortest distances.

Actually, weak force isn't so weak nor difficult to detect.

You just need to be in the right place.

Within the atomic system, that force

is felt with great intensity.

Tell me you don't snore.

PHASE 1

Hi!

This is where you're preparing your thesis?

I got you a present, I couldn't help myself.

What? Why?

Because it's not your style...

And it proves that Mr. Method is not a lost cause. There's still hope.

It's beautiful.

It's identical, how did you do it?

I had to take the sculptor to the park and make a cast.

- Seriously? - Yeah.

We almost got caught. It was fun.

I think it's the best present anyone's ever given me.

Get a room!

Let's go to your place and pick a spot for it.

And then there is the strong nuclear force, the most powerful force of all of them.

This is the force that takes care of keeping all the particles,

within the nucleus united together.

We already know how hard it is to split the nucleus of an atom.

Most people would say that strong nuclear force is love

because it makes particles inseparable.

But more careful analysis demonstrates

that it's actually more of a dependence.

Have a happy day.

You too.

The special characteristics of the strong nuclear force is that,

contrary to electromagnetism, it does not diminish with distance.

Actually it increases.

It's a bit like to tie two particles with a rubber band.

The more you separate the two, the stronger will be the attraction.

The farther away the other particle gets,

the more you need it.

And when the rubber band breaks,

things like the atomic bomb happen.

- Wanna hear a secret? - Please.

You're the first person I'm telling.

I want to be an actress.

Actually, it's what I've always wanted to be...

because I love the idea of stopping being myself

and pretending I'm someone else, living other lives,

meeting different people with stories to tell...

Do you remember the guy

I was talking to after the photo shoot? With the black hat?

The one who was devouring you with his eyes?

Yeah, that one.

He offered me the starring role in a short film.

I haven't read the script yet, but I just decided I'm going to do it.

Thanks for telling me your secret.

The question you're probably asking yourselves

is if two particles have the same forces acting on them,

do they feel them with the same intensity?

I like y... being with you.

Look what pretty bikes!

There you see.

Some signs indicate that these forces

might not have exactly the same effect on both particles.

Tell me you don't snore.

For the other particle, the weak nuclear force might be too weak.

I'm sorry, but I have trouble sleeping in the same bed with someone else.

Or the electromagnetic charge might not be

complementary enough.

Or the strong force rubber band might be too elastic.

I missed you so much.

For me the week flew by!

Not to mention that gravity never stops acting on us.

You already hold hands in the street?

Just the other day and she found an excuse

- right away to let go. - But you see each other a lot.

No, she's always too busy.

Damn, this chick is hot.

Sure you don't want to see? She's a bombshell.

They offered Elena this campaign, but she couldn't do it.

Better.

You have no idea. The other day after the photos,

when we finished...

Manel, you might be picking up signals that aren't there.

You're grabbing at straws.

You guys have fun together, right?

I do.

Maybe she's just a little spooked.

No, you notice stuff like that.

Your body can tell if the other person is falling in love or not.

Damn, those are big words. You're falling in love?

I fell in love the day we crashed into her.

What about you?

What about me?

- With Eva. - Fine.

We hang out, have sex, good vibe.

But are you...?

What?

No way.

I wouldn't mind because she's fantastic, but no.

- What about her? - Her? No, she isn't either.

Well, I don't think so.

I hope not, she hasn't said anything.

Damn.

No, I don't think so. No.

No, definitely not. Hell no.

No, no, no.

- At six? - Yeah.

Hi. What's up?

Oops, sorry.

Take my hand or I'll make a huge fucking scene you won't believe.

You're a son of a bitch.

Why? I behave myself. I treat her like a queen.

- Like you do all the girls you fuck. - Sure, I'm a gentleman.

Thanks.

Look, Manel.

I think you need to relax and give Elena time.

Play it cool, make her miss you.

Go out more, go to the gym, meet women too...

It won't matter, the scale is already tipped.

I think Elena and I have reached our peak of happiness.

Damn, with that attitude no wonder she got spooked.

It's not an attitude, it's science. It's in the books.

You don't know because all you think about is getting laid, but the initial

conditions within a system are what determine its evolution.

Huh?

What?

It's very simple. We have a system and two parts with different temperatures.

So the second law of thermodynamics is already set in motion.

What was the second law?

The second law of thermodynamics is one of the strangest laws in nature.

It introduces a new concept which is difficult to grasp,

but there's no way to escape it.

This concept raises very profound questions about reality,

and even about the meaning of time and the destiny of the universe.

It does mean that any system evolves and degrades to some extent.

Why aren't you answering?

It seems to suggest why the future goes in a particular direction

things are getting worse. I think we all notice that.

This concept is known as entropy.

But what is entropy?

Get ready to understand once and for all

something you'll never forget. How hard is it to send a message?

We've already talked about entropy when we talked about the first law.

Entropy measures of a degradation of good energy into a form of heat.

In any isolated system, the entropy will always increase.

It gets larger and larger every second.

That's the 2nd law of thermodynamics.

Entropy is a measure of energy that is lost and cannot be recovered.

Even though heat is one of the most common form of energy transfer

we are used to in our daily life,

it's very inefficient.

We cannot create anything from heat.

So, heat and entropy is a bad thing.

Heat is the most random and low quality form of energy.

A text message is too much?

You need a huge amount of heat to obtain minimum performance.

For example, let's compare it to the breaking of a nucleus in an atom.

There's someone else.

Heat is the by-product of an engine's operation.

That's why entropy is a measure of useless, wasted energy.

But there's still more.

There's another way to look at entropy

and it's even more troubling, even more devastating.

I was up all night gluing it back together.

You didn't have to.

It doesn't look so bad.

- After all you went through to... - It's okay.

It has even more personality now.

It wasn't such a pretty sculpture.

I can't see you this week, Manel, I'll be too busy with the short film.

You can visit me on the set, but I can't spend any time with you.

You're leaving already? You just got here.

I'm sorry, I can't stay. I have a rehearsal.

- Is everything okay? - I don't know.

Is everything okay?

You didn't answer my messages yesterday.

I didn't. Wow. I'm sorry I'm so busy.

- Really. - Is that all?

That's all. Don't freak out.

You might be going a little fast for me. But everything's fine, okay?

See you on Sunday. Come up with some law of physics to explain to me.

Wish me luck.

Good luck.

Heat, on the microscopic level,

is the movement of the particles that form the system.

The fact that you have heat means that the particles will get agitated.

The hotter the system, the faster particles move,

and the cooler the system,

the more quiet and more ordered are the particles.

Therefore, entropy can also be seen as a measure of the disorder of the system.

The higher the entropy, the more the disorder

and less likely it will be to find a particle in its original position.

Hi, excuse me. I'm here to see Elena, I'm Manel.

Manel? Manel who? They already left.

But they told me they were here ten minutes ago.

They're shooting the rest of the day somewhere else, like two hours away.

There are many configurations of particles in a system,

but most of them are disorganized, and only a few of them are organized.

And that means that, entropy tends to increase,

disorder will dominate.

As a consequence of this ruined disorder, which is a loss of useful energy

in order to maintain a machine in function,

we need to supply new energy from outside.

Maybe we could do a threesome.

PHASE 2

I don't mean to...

I didn't mean to startle you, but I must say that your thesis

is coming along more slowly than expected.

It sucks.

It could also be expressed that way, yes.

Right now a lot of people are working

on thermodynamics in complex systems.

If you don't hurry up, someone might beat you to it.

I'm sick of thermodynamics and complex systems.

Did you know that a large number of physicists

who developed thermodynamics committed suicide?

Or even worse, they tried unsuccessfully.

Some even lost their wives and children while trying.

The statistics are staggering.

No, I didn't know.

I'm telling you because you don't look very enthusiastic.

- I'm just tired. A bad night. - Anyway,

I only wanted to tell you that your thesis is very promising,

but you mustn't lose your edge.

We're anxiously awaiting your results.

I'll tell you about my night.

Remember, we're talking about disorder and lost energy here.

Have a seat! This is ready and it gets cold fast!

Hello?

Shit, it's overdone.

I'm sorry, I was in a hurry and everything came out backwards.

- If you'd told me a little sooner... - Hi.

Go on, sit down.

It won't be great. What are you drinking, wine?

- I brought you a bottle. - Open it and I'll start serving.

I have a casting for a movie on Monday.

I'm a little nervous, so let's not get overwhelmed, okay?

I'll help you clean up after.

Yeah, okay. I just wanted everything to be perfect

- when you got here. - I came to see you.

And I'm sure your dinner is great.

Wait, let me get this.

My love, let's have dinner and have a nice chat.

- Okay? - Okay.

I'll make coffee.

I'm not finished yet.

That way it'll be ready when you are.

I'll clear the table while I'm at it.

It's not the smoke, it's the smell of food, it's too stuffy in here.

I love this song.

I'll turn it down a bit, you hear everything up here.

At least until we close the windows. I'll do that in a second.

Don't take the wine. Please.

Yeah, right, sorry.

You're fascinating, you know that?

Look at your home.

Your books arranged by subjects,

your figures always perfectly placed,

your pajamas neatly folded by the bed...

I admire you.

I really do.

But my love, I think you need a little...

What was this called again?

Entropy?

Sorry.

I'm sorry!

Wow.

I wouldn't just call it entropy.

I'd also call it... joy!

Joy!

What are you doing?

- Will you stop? - Joy!

- Calm down for a second! - Fly!

Elena, please...

Not the drawers... Okay, okay...

- I was dying to do this. - We have to talk.

No, not the books, they're in order...

- Come on, be happy with me. - No, hold on.

Wait, let's talk... Damn

I'll stop cleaning up, I promise!

That's enough, knock it off! - We can't sleep, damn it! - Elena, please...

Some people have to work!

- Sorry! - Come here...

Let me free you, Mr. Scientific Method!

Elena, let me go!

You're repressed, don't you see?

What's your problem? You spoiled brat!

You see? You never think of the consequences!

It's better than being 15 moves ahead all the time!

You've got Kasparov Syndrome!

Yeah? And what's your thing called?

When people only care about themselves?

Don't change the subject, Mr. Method.

You're turning into a pain in the ass!

Oh, yeah. It's called "egocentritis."

When your ego is bigger than your head.

What am I doing here with a stick in the mud like you?

You're here because nobody can stand you.

Your ego absorbs everything like a black hole.

And yours doesn't?

All you want is for me to follow you around like a puppy dog.

Oh, great. Now you're leaving, right?

I think that's enough disorder to keep you busy for a while.

You see? That's what you're like.

Things get messy and you leave me here to clean it up.

It's your mess.

Give me the key, please.

I gave you a copy, remember?

I lost it, I forgot to tell you. Will you please open the door?

You lost the key to my flat?

Great. Well, I don't know where I put mine, I'm sorry.

No, I'm sorry, for being so clumsy...

Please, go ahead and leave. Everything is fine.

Thanks for coming, it was a pleasure.

No, thank you, I had a blast. You're a laugh a minute.

You're too kind!

No, really. I love being with you. I'm going to miss you so much.

Me too!

I love you!

Damn it! I am such a fucking idiot!

What was that?

That was thermodynamics reacting on my coffee pot.

Thanks.

I'll help you clean up, okay?

No. Don't even think about it.

Yes, we both did this.

No, you have to get up early tomorrow.

I said I want to help you clean up!

- No, damn it, I don't want you to. - Why wouldn't you want me to?

- Because you clean badly! - I know!

The second law of thermodynamics has a quality that makes it

let's say... deterministic.

The quality is that when you start the process, entropy will increase,

and this prevents the process to turn around,

to go back.

That we say, makes the process irreversible.

Time moves forward. Entropy goes up.

Irreversible processes happen.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics forces us to think deeper

on the very nature of fundamental processes in systems.

It is in fact impossible to go back to the exact same initial conditions.

There are two things we know that have only one direction,

and that's the increase of entropy and the arrow of time.

And perhaps even entropy can be thought of as... being responsible

for the only one direction of time that we experience.

The 2nd law of thermodynamics is very important

because it puts a limit.

If it didn't exist, then yes,

we would be able to go back to the initial energy.

No, I'm okay. It's fine, we'll hook up another time.

Yeah, don't worry, we'll talk later.

I'm fine. You do your thing.

Everything's fine, really.

It's just a little dog shit that got stuck in my hair

when I fell headfirst into shit because I was chasing you

like I do all the fucking time while you do your own fucking thing!

Fuck!

Sorry.

You don't deserve me, you bastard!

You don't...

Oh, yes, yes, like that!

This is all you want me for.

You only want me for sex, damn it!

I'm going to leave you...

I swear, I'm going to leave you...

Bastard, I swear I'm going to...

I'm going to... I'm going to...

leave... you... you... you.

I got the part!

What part?

Remember the casting I did?

Oh, right.

I'm so happy! In two months I'll be shooting a movie!

I'm sorry, we'll have to cancel our vacation.

Isn't it incredible? The director called me to tell me!

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. What's this?

It was to say I'm sorry.

Sorry? What for?

Hey, I can't stay home tonight.

I'm meeting the director and some people from the crew to celebrate.

You can sleep over

but I don't know what time I'll be back.

No, that's okay, I have things to do at home.

- Okay. You're not mad? - No.

Why don't you make something to drink while I get dressed?

I need a drink!

Entropy advances slowly.

Sometimes it's nearly impossible to detect.

But it's unstoppable.

To eliminate it, you'd have to stop

particles in motion,

fix them somehow to some unalterable structure.

And even then you'd never be able to eliminate it completely.

Sooner or later,

entropy destroys the efficiency of the system... and the machine stops working.

I think we should give ourselves some time.

And even though one formula calculates entropy

in terms of probability

and the other in terms of energy,

even calculating such different things,

the results match.

Isn't that fascinating?

No?

I don't get it, teach.

You know me, I study all the time,

but thermodynamics is too much for me.

What is it you don't get?

Any of it. To start with, I don't get the point of any of this.

Maybe you don't get it

because you've missed a subtle but important detail.

That all of this doesn't only affect the substances we use in the laboratory.

It affects you, it affects me,

it affects everyone.

The second law of thermodynamics

explains why a glass you drop smashes into pieces on the floor

but if you drop the pieces they don't form a glass.

It explains why machines stop working if you don't use them,

why sand castles never last

and why we always end up forgetting everything.

It explains why what you wanted to do

becomes the mess you end up making

and why your girlfriend gets bored with you and finds someone else.

It even explains why we can't go back in time

and fix the things we screwed up with her.

It explains practically everything you do wrong.

Because it applies to all systems,

starting with the universe itself and ending with your own life

and the shitty social system you're wasting away in.

Think about it.

Bring me a book report next week.

I love you.

HEY, WHAT'S UP?

No, damn it!

No, damn it!

Elena?

No, this isn't Procrastinators Anonymous.

There is another way to express the fundamental meaning of entropy,

a logical consequence that is quite frankly alarming.

If all available energy in the universe

deteriorates continuously and irreversibly,

in the far distant future,

there might not be enough to sustain the processes we have today.

And this would lead to what we called the heat death of the universe.

Sadly, my friends, in the very long term

there won't even be super-massive and wonderful beings like Elena

to make us suffer.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves again.

Let's go back one more time

to understand what really happened,

where classical physics started going wrong

and brought us to the current state of things.

Hey, hi! Great!

- And you? - Great.

Manel, this is Lorenzo. He's my co-star in the movie.

- How are you? - Fine.

The fundamental problem in classical physics

is what we might called the point of view paradox.

Pablo... Pablo!

Eva! Eva!

Over here!

Pablo!

Eva!

Sweetie, call him!

Look who's there! Elena!

Two observers which are moving one respect to the other

measure different things.

He's so crazy!

I don't understand how Eva goes along with it.

Pablo! Pablo!

Over here!

Pablo!

Handsome!

Let's consider an event.

In this case, it will happen in about eight seconds.

And let's suppose we have two observers,

one standing still and the other in motion with respect to the event.

Let's see how each one observes the event.

From the girlfriend's point of view,

Pablo falls in a straight line towards the ground.

For his lover, however,

since the bus is moving,

Pablo falls following a curve.

The curve is obviously longer than the straight line,

so his lover will see him fall at a greater speed than his girlfriend.

But what happens if we consider this problem

by applying it to a ray of light?

The two observers have to see exactly the same event

because the speed of light is constant.

And that's exactly what Einstein realized.

Einstein proved that not only space contracts or stretches

depending of the position of the observer,

that time itself is also relative.

I felt like I was in the air forever.

Does it hurt a lot?

What were you thinking, son? How could you fall off a bus?

Where is Eva?

Okay, everyone.

I have to wash him. This can be very unpleasant.

- What should we do? - Leave.

Go outside and shut the door, I'm going to scream.

Can you ask Eva to come and help, please?

I'm right here.

Special relativity shows clearly one thing.

No measure of time is more valid than any another.

It only depends on the motion of the observer.

For me the week flew by!

You're leaving already? You just got here.

You might be going a little fast for me.

But everything's fine.

But all of this is only part of Einstein's theory,

which he called special relativity.

The real sledgehammer to classical physics was still to come.

Later on, Einstein came up with an even more daring proposal,

which he called the theory of general relativity.

What we know from Einstein is that freely falling under gravity

is completely equivalent to being accelerated.

Just to clarify:

Falling in love has the same effect as running faster than you're supposed to.

In both cases, your heart races and wants to jump out of your mouth.

Hi, Manel.

Hi.

We agreed not to speak, that we needed to reflect.

Yeah, but I wanted to say that I've reflected.

A lot.

And I can't bear the thought

of losing you. I'll do anything you want not to lose you.

I know, Manel, but...

that's not how it works.

The scene you made the other day... That's not the Manel I like.

I like the one from the beginning, before you started freaking out.

I think you need to keep reflecting.

This led Einstein to a rather surprising conclusion.

Gravitation doesn't act like a normal force.

You no longer need to think of gravity as a force.

Another words, you can describe Gravitational attraction

as being due to the way the space-time is curved,

because of the presence of another massive body.

In other words, stars like Elena deform

the space time around them with their mere presence.

And planets like Manel think they're free

and moving in a straight line

when they're actually trapped,

orbiting around their star.

I'm fine, really.

I feel awesome.

I don't even miss her anymore.

My life is finally straightening out.

The theory of relativity revolutionized science.

But it almost appeared nearly at the same time

as the latest revolution...

- It's okay ? -... quantum physics.

Did you know that quantum physics started when a scientist...

Ernest Rutherford was his name...

got the idea to imagine the atom like a miniature solar system,

with particles orbiting around each other?

What a son of a bitch.

Let's consider Elena and Manel again as a system of subatomic particles.

The evolution of his visits to her flat

will serve as an example of the implausible quantum laws.

There is one famous principle,

which is called uncertainty principle

It's about two quantities which

can not be defined with infinite precision at the same time.

If you measure where a particle is, you don't know how fast it's traveling.

I got an urgent job, I'll see you tonight!

OPTION 1

OPTION 2

I was thinking you could have keys to my place as well.

OPTION 3

Use the keys I gave you! Dinner is burning!

But if you measure how fast it's traveling,

you don't know where it is.

OPTION 1

Happy birthday, Mr. Method!

OPTION 2

Did you check if dinner is burning?

OPTION 3

What are you doing?

Sorry!

Even if you have keys, you can ring the doorbell first!

There are always limits to what we can know about a particle.

Because of these uncertainties that observing the particle

affects it's situation.

It's like it's only doing what you observe while you observe it,

like it's performing only for you.

I'm going to the bathroom.

The rest of the time, there is no way of knowing for sure what it is doing.

But the uncertainty arises

not only from the fact that you can't know what it's doing,

but from something much more disturbing.

When we're not looking at a particle,

we like to describe it as being spread out in some kind of cloud of probability.

Where we might say the particle is not do anything in particular,

and at the same time it's doing everything.

What are you doing?

It seems completely crazy.

But in fact it's not.

What did you say?

What are you doing?

In the probability cloud, although some things are more probable than others,

really, anything is possible.

What, you want details about what I do in the bathroom?

It is even possible,

and it has been proven by a famous experiment,

that a particle can be in two places at once.

And your cell phone?

I left it in the bathroom.

You're going to leave it there?

Do you mind? Do you want me to go get it?

But this phenomenon is merely a consequence

of the deepest and most terrifying truth

presented by quantum physics:

wave-particle duality.

Everything in the universe, can behave either as a wave or a particle.

Strictly speaking, one particle can be only in one place at a time.

What really happens is while we're not observing the particle,

it behaves like a wave.

And the wave spreads across all the space around it.

You can think of it as the particle that is embodied by that wave,

being in lots of places all in one go.

This means not only that it can be anywhere in this space.

It also means that it is in all these places at once.

What did you do last night?

Why?

You were with Lorenzo, right?

Are you seriously asking me?

You were with Lorenzo.

I was with you.

Please, don't change the subject.

I was with you!

I don't care if you were with me! You fucked him! Go on, say it!

You fucked him!

Normally I'm not like this, you know.

But there's something I haven't told you yet.

Let's go back to my visits to Elena's flat

so you can finally understand what happened.

In fact, although we can not know exactly where a particle is,

we know exactly the value of the probability

of finding it at a given place.

Manel, we have to have a serious talk. You were shitting yourself, eh?

If you study a sufficient number of particles,

I got an urgent job, I'll see you tonight!

you can be sure the probability is always right.

In the long-term...

I got the part!

... it's just infallible.

But studying a sufficient number of particles

is the same as studying the same particle

a sufficient number of times.

Manel!

And relationships in particular

offer us enough time to study the particle

a lot of times.

At the exact moment you observe the particle,

the cloud and the rest of the possibilities disappear.

The particle stops behaving like a wave

and it's really doing what you see.

Lorenzo is hot.

He hasn't stopped hitting on me since we met

and he's hot.

You already said that.

I flirt with him too.

Sometimes I've even thought about fucking him.

Especially when I'm having doubts about you.

But I don't fall in love with someone because he's hot

and I don't want a boyfriend who's a model or an actor.

That's the last thing I want.

I want someone who thinks about other things,

about things more important than ourselves,

who doesn't spend all day seducing people

or have an ego bigger than his own head.

- Like yours. - Like mine, yeah.

I want a boyfriend who explains weird things to me,

over and over again because I don't understand them

and nobody else does either, but I love it.

A thermodynamic boyfriend who I can call Mr. Method.

A clean freak who makes me show up on time

and watch documentaries and go to bed early.

Even if he always falls asleep before I do.

Don't give up yet, just be a little patient with me.

Okay?

But don't be fooled by her sensationalist little speech.

The course of our relationship would have been marked anyway.

That money is mine, rookie!

Cut!

They say quantum physics put an end to scientific determinism.

Elena!

But that's nothing but a wrong assessment.

You were perfect.

Probability, let's repeat,

is just as determinant over time as the most exact of all laws.

It's infallible.

And even worse, it leaves you with no weapons to fight it.

Good, you?

In the end, probability always puts you in your place.

Especially when you can't see where the other particle is.

Which takes us back to the second law of thermodynamics.

Why do you think entropy always marks the worst direction possible?

Because the chances of things turning out the way you want

are ridiculous compared to the chances they won't.

I don't care if you were with me! You fucked him!

Go on, say it!

You fucked him!

The chances of the other particles

being where you want them to be will always be extremely small.

I think we should give ourselves some time.

I need to reflect and...

and you need to reflect.

There's another quantum phenomenon that clearly explains

what happens during periods of reflection between couples.

Or did you actually think these periods have ever been used to reflect?

When two particles have been joined

for example, forming the nucleus of an atom,

a quantum entanglement appears.

And they both conserve a complementarity even if they get separated.

HELLO! HOW ARE YOU? I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU...

Despite being separated, they're still connected.

You measure one of them, and you force the other one to be in the other state.

Not only does the state of one tell you the state of the other,

but manipulating the state of one affect the state of the other too.

And it doesn't matter how far away they are from each other.

Complementary states doesn't mean

they're the same, don't you see?

Fine, I'm not okay.

I feel like shit.

And that's exactly why I know, I'm positive that she's happy.

That son of a bitch Rutherford.

I'm going to the bathroom.

- Okay, but you didn't decide that. - Fine.

Look, Manel. We've been friends for a long time.

I've always listened to your theories and I've even shown interest.

But I can't take it anymore. You're a pain in the ass.

Thanks, buddy. That's just what I needed to hear.

Maybe it is. Your determinism stinks.

Since everything is determined, nothing is up to you.

You leave no room for free will.

Free will is an illusion, I already told you that.

It might be an illusion, but people keep fucking each other.

Look at Eva.

She had it much worse than you with Elena, but she never gave up.

And here we are.

She's had to swallow her pride over and over again

because I treated her like shit,

but she hung in there and fought for what she wanted.

- I fought too. - No, you complained, it's not the same.

Eva knew I'd hooked up with the girl from Gay Pride,

and still there she was in the hospital every day

taking care of me.

Eva is fucking awesome.

Damn, Pablo. You're really shitfaced.

Tell me one thing. Will that change anything?

Yeah. When the model came to the hospital and she caught us...

Hold on, the model caught you?

Eva caught us.

Then she disappeared

and that's when I realized how much I missed her.

What's up?

I'm sorry, you can't go in there.

Hey, I said you can't... She's in a meeting...

You can't...!

I'm sorry, I couldn't stop him.

I know you don't want to see me or talk to me.

I just wanted to say

I'm a jerk. I know I screwed up and I don't deserve you, Eva.

But I love you.

I love you and I want to live with you.

And if you give me a chance,

I promise I will never do what I did again.

I can't live without you, Eva. I don't want to live without you.

If you want me to take you back,

sign this.

It's a contract obliging you to be faithful with your assets as collateral.

I'm kidding, you dipshit.

The model is gorgeous.

And the one at the parade is too, amazing in bed.

But Eva has... She's...

I've decided to stop fooling around and finally settle down.

I know what you're going to say, but no, I'm serious.

I'll tell you what you're going to say.

That I'm saying this because I'm on crutches

and can barely fuck, that the accident affected my brain,

that I always said this would never happen to me,

not if I could still get women, not before age 50,

that I see storm clouds on the horizon

and I'm scared of ending up alone,

that settling down means giving up, being stingy,

that it means rejecting our essence,

freedom and true love,

which is absolutely disgraceful,

sad, pathetic...

No, that's not what I was going to say.

What's disgraceful and pathetic?

Manel, who else?

I'm telling him that he hides behind his laws so he won't have to do anything.

Manel, you give up when it's time to give up, not before.

In fact, I was thinking something in the bathroom.

That law of quantum entanglement.

You say that if you change the state of one particle,

it changes the state of the other one too, right?

Then if you change yourself to a more positive state,

if you take care of yourself and surround yourself with good vibes,

then maybe Elena won't be

as happy and she'll start missing you.

I hadn't thought of that.

It might work, right?

But she has to see you like the Manel from the beginning.

Before you freaked out.

Of course! That's what I've been telling him all along.

To have fun, to go out more, damn it.

To go out and get dressed up and flirt with other chicks, right?

Go to the gym,

I don't know, live a little.

And have sex, right?

Fuck tons of chicks, hump as many as you can.

You see, Manel?

I told you, Eva is the best. How could I not be crazy about her?

You're the best.

Because you already know, or at least you should know,

that thermodynamics...

We know she's totally hot. If we multiply her attractive mass

by the speed of light squared, we get an immeasurable amount of energy.

LIFE IS WONDERFUL!!!

Hey. Here we go.

Then there's the type of woman I call a super-massive black hole.

She's not just hot and totally sick,

she thinks she's the center of the galaxy, everything revolves around her.

In theory she could even become a worm hole.

She can rip you out of your world and transport you

to a parallel universe. She's the hole, I'm...

the worm.

Do you have a girlfriend and you're a little burnt out?

Girlfriend, me? No, no. Yeah, okay. A few.

Tons. You.

What's a girlfriend?

You'll tell me later. Guys are so weird.

Where are you taking me?

I don't know, wherever you want.

Hi, Elena.

Manel, hi.

- How are you? - Fine, you?

Fine, awesome. You?

Fine, great.

I'm glad to hear it. I'm great too.

- This is Alba. - Hi.

- You're Elena Baocchi, right? - Yes.

Wow, I didn't know I was going to meet a celebrity!

My latest fling, a student. We're doing great.

Well, we're starting.

She's barely of legal age, but she's very smart.

And we're both into science.

She understands almost everything I explain to her.

Right, Alba?

Alba's cool.

Maybe we can have a threesome tonight.

Okay, actually...

it's my first time out with her.

All this time reflecting is killing me.

We came here because I wanted to see you.

I need to know how much longer...

Do you remember Lorenzo?

Hi.

I remembered you taller.

And you didn't want a boyfriend who was a model or actor.

That's the last thing you wanted.

You wanted a thermodynamic boyfriend, remember?

To explain the laws

of physics to you. Well, there's still a lot left to explain...

It was true at the time.

You were nice to me, you explained interesting things to me,

we had a great time, but...

But people can't always be right.

Who do you mean, you or me?

Manel, you have a problem.

You explain things like your laws are real,

but they're only in your head.

You don't see reality.

I'm not a bunch of organized atoms.

And the proof is I've decided to leave you.

You think you've decided to leave me.

I'm sorry.

I have more things in common with Lorenzo.

He helps me with work, he gives me confidence,

he's calm and sure of himself.

Yeah, I get it.

You're right.

Although you've forgotten one small detail.

It's no coincidence that he's another super-massive body.

You see?

That's what I mean, you can't control reality

and you never stop trying to.

When reality resists, you try twice as hard

to make it fit into your shitty laws.

What? Forcing reality to fit?

You don't even understand what you're saying.

Hey! Aren't you going to pay?

Elena, wait! Elena.

What do you mean, I force things?

Seriously? Pablo isn't the one you like?

It's normal, he's very handsome. Admit it, you like him more.

I don't mind, really, we're great friends.

You like Pablo more.

Explain it to me? How do I force reality?

This isn't going to work, I'm telling you.

I know it's the second time we've slept together,

but we're totally different. You with that job, traveling all the time,

and me... You'll get bored with me as soon as the novelty wears off.

Please! Elena!

The one with the hat? Are you sure he wants to make a short film?

Or maybe he wants to get in your pants. I hope the script is good,

but come on, a guy who looks like that can't be a good writer.

Everything I did was because I'm crazy about you!

WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU?

And now you say I force things?

Come on!

Elena!

Action!

Cut!

Wait. Please, don't leave me.

Elena...

I've already left you, Manel! I've already left you.

You know why? Because that's what you wanted.

You wanted this to fail from the very beginning.

Because you're incapable of winning, you only know how to lose.

Because it confirms how smart you are and how great your theories are.

And I'll tell you another thing.

You can't apply the laws of physics to love!

You can't! It's madness! It's total bullshit!

You can't!

PHASE 3

No need to pretend, Mr. Suarez.

You know that the electromagnetic field passes through walls.

From my office I could detect that today yours is a brown color,

nearly black.

I'm surprised I even still have an electromagnetic field.

You might lose it completely when you hear what I have to say.

You can't continue as my teacher's assistant.

University rules prohibit relations between teachers and students.

One of our pupils reported you to the dean.

- But nothing happened... - No, there's no need to explain.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't work like science.

The truth is not what matters most.

Whether it's true or not, there's nothing you can do now.

Don't martyr yourself.

Your pay was crap.

And of course, your classes were in line.

Which means they sucked.

Everything passes, Mr. Suarez. Don't forget that.

Even those personal issues that are upsetting you so much.

That law has less exceptions than any other I know of.

Would you like to have lunch with me later?

I'm not trying to make friends,

I only want to make sure you're not planning

to pad the statistics on thermodynamic suicides.

Don't worry, I promise not to, at least until I finish my thesis.

I'm glad to hear it.

In any case, you won't be eligible for that statistic until it's finished.

After relativity and quantum physics,

a shocking discovery was made that showed just how far

we were from understand reality.

The universe is not only immensely large,

but it's expending.

That's to say that, all the bodies of the universe

are moving away from each other.

And the further away they are, the faster they move.

There you have it, my friends.

The universe is drifting away and it's going to leave us even more isolated.

This discovery led to the conclusion that in the beginning,

everything in the universe, must have been concentrated

in an impossibly small, inconceivably dense clump.

At one time

all of the bodies in the universe were very close,

squeezed together in the form of pure energy.

And then came the Big Bang.

So the question scientists asked at that point:

"Where is the universe going? What is it's ultimate destination?

It was thought that if the universe had enough mass,

the whole expansion could be reverted.

And the universe will end up collapsing again

into what is known as the Big Crunch.

This beautiful theory foresaw that everyone,

even Elena and me, would be brought back together

in a warm and eternal embrace.

But the fateful news arrived barely 2 decades ago.

The universe is not just expanding, that expansion is actually accelerating.

We are moving away faster and faster.

So, the final destiny of the universe might not be the thermal death,

but a kind of tear in the space-time of the universe, called the Big Rip.

The Big Rip.

At this point that ending sounds about right to me.

The force causing this acceleration has been called dark energy,

basically because we don't know what it is.

Because it's a mystery.

Maybe I can shed some light on this point.

This force that distances us

is the same force that stopped the Manel-body

from truly giving himself to the Elena-body

and seeing things as they really were.

It's the same force that destroys true love

and strengthens mediocre relationships, makes us selfish,

petty and suspicious.

Fear.

Fear.

Fear is what made me hide behind those laws,

I see it clearly now.

So I wouldn't have to face my own mistakes, my failure.

Elena was right,

thinking they can be applied to love is insane.

Though the coincidences are pretty amazing, aren't they?

What do you think? I'm a mess.

My wife looked to me like a pretty massive star when she was young.

But she didn't turn out so massive to become a supernova.

She came out a brown dwarf.

So it's not that bad, right?

I mean, I thought he would diagnose you with schizophrenia or something.

Are you sure you don't want to take a look? She's tremendous.

You're the one who'll end up schizophrenic

if you keep talking to people while looking at photos

of hot women.

I don't want to forget there's a world out there.

Because there's something worse than dark energy.

Shit, Pablo. I can't mix physics with my feelings anymore.

Dark matter is much worse.

No!

You two are having a baby?

Eva was right when she said down deep I'm a great dad.

Congratulations, man!

We don't know what dark matter is either.

What we do know is that the universe behaves like there was more gravity

than corresponds to the bodies we can see.

That means we attract and cling to each other

more than we should according to how attractive we are.

Here's your lunch.

Good lord, what am I doing?

Things were going so well, why did I have to fall in love?

You say that dark energy could be fear.

Well, I say that dark matter is necessity.

And necessity sucks.

What I liked was entropy, disorder.

That was my territory. And I'll tell you something else:

with less entropy, there's less freedom, because the particles

are tied down!

Isn't that right?

Am I right or not?

I don't know, I'm not listening.

For God's sake!

I need entropy back in my life!

Please, somebody entropy me.

There's still one law missing to complete our voyage through science:

the third principle of thermodynamics.

If you manage to reduce the internal motions in the system

completely to the absence of vibrations or motions,

then you'll reach a certain temperature, which is called the absolute zero.

- We'll be at the bar. - Okay.

That's the temperature which corresponds to -273°C.

The 3rd law of thermodynamics tells us that absolute zero can not be achieved.

In order to cool a body to absolute zero, you should inject so much energy

that at certain point you would eventually heat.

If only a little bit, the body itself.

That's right,

we'll never be able to completely forget.

We'll never reach that temperature that stops

our atoms from vibrating when we see her.

Congratulations, Elena.

Thanks for coming.

It was very important to me.

Congratulations.

I hope you two are very happy.

It's Manel, my ex.

Manel, thanks for coming.

I hope you enjoy the party.

- Elena, look who's here! - Victor, great to see you!

Congratulations, beautiful.

Hi.

Raquel?

What are you doing here?

Small world, huh?

I'm a friend of Lorenzo's.

Well, actually we had our own quantum entanglement.

He's a good guy.

And he's very hot.

But I liked you more.

There you have it.

Once thermodynamics comes into your life, it never leaves.

Hey, it's Raquel!

- Pablito! - How are you?

The best girlfriend this bum ever had!

This is Eva, the best girlfriend this bum ever had.

- Nice to meet you. - Likewise.

Although, thanks to my therapy, I was able to reflect

and I've discovered the law that truly rules over all of our actions.

It's no doubt the most amazing law of all time.

But we'll leave it for next time.

This theory caused one of the greatest revolution in human thinking.

Not even Newton or Einstein's contributions made such an impact.

It had amazing implications for all of biology.

When you put it together with relativity and quantum mechanics,

it's completely changed our modern view of the world.

The idea that it's from Greek philosophers,

but maybe it was too early for humanity to grasp it.

It had such a deep impact on how we must think about our place in the world.

I do not think that its consequences are yet to be well understood today.

It's appearance, at the time, was a tremendous blow

to the fundamentalist of theology.

And it still is.

We are discovering that it applies not only to biology,

but also to all complex systems.

We'll be working on its mechanism and details for a long time.

There are no words to describe the simplicity,

beauty and goodness of the law.

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