Erwin Schrœdinger, in February 1943, wondered how the evolution of life is possible, in spite of the second law of thermodynamics (principle of increasing entropy). This inconsistency between a fact and a law of physics led him to say that we should be ready to accept a new law, the missing piece of a mosaic, to integrate what was already known.

A few years later also Leon Brillouin wondered: "How is it possible to understand life when the entire world is ordered by a law such as the second principle of thermodynamics, which points to death and annihilation?"

To these concerns I can only respond in this way: against the inevitability of the effects of the second law, we can only take into account how much it delays them.

First of all, the compensatory energy that comes to us from the Sun, until its energy is exhausted.

Another example of a retarder, knowing how to use the cumulative-dissipative processes well, the subject of this work.

I do not exclude that there are other mechanisms that delay the final event currently called "heat death".