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A perpetual motion machine which begins on its own and continues forever is constantly accelerating [fact]. Machine, system, what have you. Any scientist or mathematician will tell you the same thing.

Because the Universe is observed to be expanding [fact] and since it is also observed that this expansion is accelerating [fact] it follows that it started on its own [premise], therefore again, it is a system which is in perpetual motion.

One can't escape the logic.

Reality is not a mind game. There are definite rules that define the relationships that we have with all the various components with which we share it. We are not the figments of the imagination of some super mind or the playthings of some divine clique of Gods with nothing better to do with their time but to toy with their magic. We are a very real and requisite product from the ongoing process of cosmic generation. We truly belong here in this reality where we have a most important place in it. The very reason for our being subscribes to the necessary conformation to the continued manifestation of the anthropocentric universe. We are predetermined to exist by the necessary adaptation of the rationale that predates and predicates creation. Premonition created and continues to create the one and only universe.

The great power of the creative intellect is that it is capable of inventing something that simply is not real and can never be real. But we define reality by virtue of witness. We believe what we see. While we can have faith in what we believe when we cannot see it, we are most of us unmoving in rejecting that which is not the product of the thinking of the status quo when we have not been a witness to it. It is comfortable to believe what everyone believes but there is no rule that makes something real just because everybody believes it.

It is tempting to suggest that in a pristine and untouched corner of the universe one can invent a reality by merely thinking about it, so long as there are logically thought out rules that make its existence a plausibility; that this is perhaps how God made the universe, because there was nothing at that time but the potential for it to exist. Unfortunately, while that is an interesting and amusing notion in its own right, the processes that have shaped our reality cannot be recreated or reinvented. They are represented by a fixed set of rules in the fixed framework for this creation that cannot be broken, only accommodated. Our reality is indeed real, and not a holographic projection or a synthesis of the imagination. All the corners of the universe have already been created. It cannot be observed from without.

Philosophy and Science merge when one understands the whole truth. There is then no distinction between the two.

On the subject of entropy:

Contrary to popular belief, or more appropriately, a misunderstanding of the meaning of entropy, all structures in nature are biased toward maintaining or returning to their state of equilibrium, as demonstrated by the atom's tendency to return to a stable state when an applied energy producing its excitation is removed. The popular idea that a system has an irreversible tendency toward increasing disorder applies only to the state change of a system, such as the application of energy to change the thermodynamic state of a system or for example a state change from solid to liquid, or liquid to gas. It is said in any event that whenever a system is in the same thermodynamic state it has the same entropy, just as it has the same temperature, volume, and pressure. Thus in physics entropy is defined as a state variable. The universe does not have an irreversible tendency toward increasing disorder. All the evidence that we can see thus far points to the exact opposite.