I would like to understand how specifically life on earth is contributing to increased entropy elsewhere in the universe, and how the presence of life is contributing more entropy than if there were no life on earth?
Life is exporting entropy to the outer space. For every photon from the Sun that falls onto the Earth, our planet emits 10 photons to the space. The primary reason for that is plant life. The presence of life on Earth decreases entropy compared with the case it there were no life. Albeit this effect spreads mainly onto the surface regions of the planet. Also life is constantly getting more complex and ordered with time. Contrary to non living things. For example, we are in a sense the same organism that originated on Earth 4 billion years ago as a single cell-like creature. We are literally it, because it divided and divided again, without dying, until it became us. But we are immensely more complex than this common ancestor. Thus denying the 2nd law. Don't quit life)
I would like to understand how specifically life on earth is contributing to increased entropy elsewhere in the universe, and how the presence of life is contributing more entropy than if there were no life on earth?
Life is exporting entropy to the outer space.
For every photon from the Sun that falls onto the Earth, our planet emits 10 photons to the space. The primary reason for that is plant life.
The presence of life on Earth decreases entropy compared with the case it there were no life. Albeit this effect spreads mainly onto the surface regions of the planet.
Also life is constantly getting more complex and ordered with time. Contrary to non living things. For example, we are in a sense the same organism that originated on Earth 4 billion years ago as a single cell-like creature. We are literally it, because it divided and divided again, without dying, until it became us. But we are immensely more complex than this common ancestor. Thus denying the 2nd law.
Don't quit life)
Its a good thing thers other universes
Never to be recovered? All burned out? So, how came something instead of nothing?