The thermodynamic law of devolution was based on steam engines that don’t evolve as our universe does, but the same quantum law that drives this law also enables evolution, as exploring every option finds new combinations that survive. For example, when electrons discover stable orbits around protons in atoms, order increases. A lead atom is 82 protons, 125 neutrons, and 82 electrons in a highly ordered state with a half-life of millions of years, so it is essentially a permanent increase in order.
A cool fridge on a hot day needs a power supply to stay cold, but lead atoms don’t need energy to stay ordered, just an unlikely sequence of past events, and eggs are the same. Matter evolves by finding unlikely combinations that survive, not by maintaining a heat imbalance. For example, that extreme light collided head-on (4.3.1) is by any standard a very unlikely event, but the resulting electron is stable. Order increased when light entangled into an electron, but no energy maintains it, so the evolution of matter increases order without an ongoing energy cost.
This doesn’t contradict the second law, that energy is needed to create order, because the search for stable combinations needs energy. Evolution lets atoms form ordered molecules like water, then super-molecules like RNA that copy themselves, leading to the cells that made us. The biological evolution of life then just followed on from the physical evolution of matter, as a natural extension.
If the quantum flux that underlies the second law of thermodynamics also underpins evolution, one can’t exist without the other. Evolution needs constant change to discover new possibilities, but that same change inevitably causes decay, so order is possible for the same reason that disorder is probable. Evolution increases order by finding possible states and devolution increases disorder by finding probable states, but both have the same quantum origin.
Current physics sees that everything is falling apart, but not that it is also coming together, as the evolution of matter in stars and supernovas is an anti-entropy process that we can’t replicate. If only life evolved, the second law might reign supreme, but matter also does, so evolution is as universal as devolution. Evolution was built into our universe at its inception, just as heat flows were, and can explain what the second law can’t, that life exists because order evolved. Yet for a universe to possibly evolve it must also probably decay, so devolution is the shadow of evolution, just as neutrinos are like shadow electrons.