All change is the consequence of the purposeless collapse of energy and matter into disorder
– overheard on an ‘In Our Time’ about the second law of thermodynamics
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All change is the consequence of the purposeless collapse of energy and matter into disorder
– overheard on an ‘In Our Time’ about the second law of thermodynamics
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*sigh*
“All things move towards their end…all outer movement connects to nothing” to quote nick cave
“All change is the consequence of the purposeless collapse of energy and matter into disorder”
Yeah, that’s what I told Nenagh when I split up with her, but I’m not sure it helped very much.
What, didn’t she even feel better when you told her that we were local reverses in entrophy, purely temporary self-organising auto-catalytic assembelages which exist contingent on directed energy flow…?
Written on the door of a thermo professor at (I think) MIT:
“Why?”
“Because it lowers the free energy of the system.”