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Originally Posted by JAK Given the tendency for the universe to move toward "heat death" (maximum entropy), a strong case was made by Erwin Schrodinger in the 1940s ("What is Life?") that life must climb toward "negative entropy" (greater order) to survive. At maximum entropy (maximum equilibrium and chaos), no "work cycles" are possible, so life (and awareness) cannot exist (Stuart Kauffman, 1990s). |
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Originally Posted by JAK Gravity appears to move oppositely to entropy. As interstellar gas condenses, stars (high energy sources) are formed. Essentially, resources go from relatively disordered, low energy sources (high entropy) to well ordered, complex, systematic, high energy sources (low entropy). Of course, at that point, they emit electromagnetic radiation, so they begin wasting away toward greater entropy. The question of infinite expansion of the universe verses cyclical expansions/contractions (quasi steady state, I believe may be the term for it) becomes the crux of the issue of life in the future. |
Actually, high energy sources, like humans, Black holes, and Supernovae, can isolate the release of enough energy to create particles from the
negative energy of the vacuum, which reverses the normally destructive consequences of the second law on a grand scale, but without violating it.
Einstein didn't know that particle creation in his static model causes expansion, while holding the universe flat and stable, or we'd be living in a much different universe right now that doesn't include infinities and uncertainty.
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/2005-06/msg0069755.html
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