Nope.
Earth is not in thermal equilibrium. It is situated between something very hot and very cold. As long as that very hot thing (more commonly known as "the sun") stays hot, and that very cold thing (more commonly known as "deep space") stays cold, the earth will continue to exist out of equilibrium.
that is funny.
All that cold per se empty space but for some reason there are collectives of mass, in little balls making the sky look black will lil'white dots.
billlions of years and still not much equilibration going on.
If life evolves in itself provides evidence but few apply the laws to life.
Why is that?
Nothing about that statement suggests any violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
sure..... the first requires that no energy just vanishes, it must be conserved.
So the method of comprehending that is that the energy converts into various different states based on the surrounding mass.
for example; to tap the surface of the ocean, you will see the wave on the surface covering distance in time and the wave appears to get smaller but to be causal, the energy is just entangling a greater amount of mass, but it is still there collectively. It does not just go away when causally identified and retained in value.
ie... the 2nd is for the steam engine era with hot water for mechanical conversion, it does not apply to quantum level energy (em). And the proof is self evidenced in the bohr analogy of the electron spinning in an orbit (per se) around the proton.
The second is made moot by simply requiring the causal definition of 'why' the hot goes cold.
it's stupid easy to a 'critical thinker' but like a religious adherant few will go against genesis too.
Same with life: it's not an equilibrium condition, but that
doesn't matter, because it only exists in an environment that is not in equilibrium.[/QUOTE]