Entropy

Entropy is the fragmentation of forces. It goes right along with time. Time is the human calculation of entropy. We use time to measure entropy, because we have no other way. As time progresses, entropy goes in a positive flow, or a negative flow. Entropy will rise at a steady rate until we reach a point near 100%, and at that point it will either end time, or it will reverse in flow. If we accepted the near-100% point to be a big bang type event, then the next cycle of entropy would be all things slowing down, once again going at a steady rate. Upon reaching close to 0%, entropy would restart, or a living, sentient species would start. We could not reach a absolute because that would mean a singularity and that could not exist. Time would continue in this endless loop; however the events would continue to be recreated. The specific events would not be reenacted to the exact, due to human and non-human randomness, but as the infinite monkey theorem states, some events could very well be perfectly recreated. This flow of entropy cannot be reversed by any means other than time, and if any proof could be offered toward this, it would be us. Can anyone honestly say things were better 20 years ago than now? You look on the news and see murders, school-shootouts, etc. look 20 years ago and you would not see this. Almost every, if not every technological advance that has been made has been subverted, creating a weapon of some sorts. Look at nuclear power-we made nuclear bombs out of it. Electricity? Tasers, stun guns, weapon targeting systems, etc.

Greed is one of the driving forces behind this. More specifically put it would be greed for power, with a few exceptions. Everything we do is ultimately going to boost our power, and this inclines me to believe that we do things for that purpose. You go to school to learn, and through knowledge comes power. You get a good job for money, which also gives you power. Humans always want freedom for this gain in knowledge. Almost all strict, non-warmongering tyrannies have lasted the longest out of all societies. Look at America. It has a dying economy, very loose morals that loosen every day, and many more murders than other countries. Now look at the stricter places, like Saudi Arabia. You steal there, you lose a hand. With such a swift and strict punishment, no one will risk stealing, or at least much less. We seek this freedom to gain power, and with that power we destroy. That is why the free countries last the shortest. Humans only stay together under the weight of oppression. We will not let ourselves be oppressed like this, so we continue to fall, create more weapons to stop this falling, and the flow of entropy all the while increases.

Entropy cannot be viewed as a one directional things- space can be seen as possibility and so dimensions (direction) can be seen as the possibilities accessible or discernible to the human mind. We can only be aware of one because if it flowed another way everything would be reversed-human minds would be reconstructing and dematerializing. That would be ridiculous. Also, time would continue, since it is not uni-directional and is just a measurement it is as finite as numbers. The flow can be slowed however- When a large preservative event, like tyranny, occurs things can be slowed. When Caesar ruled there was less entropy in the flow because there was safety. Things were preserved, so less entropy flowed. This becomes harder and harder to do- as humans we currently view tyranny as bad. As stated before it is due to greed. We are the preservers of entropy, always keeping it at its pace. The flow of entropy can change after all life is dead, but never until then . Thus we see that we cannot change it, but entropy will continue.

Any comments are welcome.

Interestingly, the flow of your essay very much resembles one of the popular views of entropy - that of increasing overall state of disorder. However, I will not try to debate over the physical correctness of your thesis (since it would be a long and for the most part irrelevant discussion), nor will I mule over your rapid changes of pace and topic, leading to great varieties of theses. Rather, I will try to go directly to the problem (well, one of them, anyway) it seems you are targeting. Revisiting that thought, I would more accurately turn my attention only towards one of the many views with a seemingly equally attributed importance.

Flashing brightly is a over-romanticized picture of the Roman Empire and the likes. By no widely accepted definition was this a period of safety. The dynamics of an empire exclude such notion. One either expands or retracts, it is never stable. Throughout the whole history of Roman ruling the empire was maintained by incessant wars on almost all of its huge boundaries and not only. Now, the morals…no, this is too large a subject to begin with…but while we are at it, which part of those did you find adorable? Likewise, I cannot even imagine where to start on your admiration of Saudi Arabia as you portray it. And do you honestly consider all those murders and personal tragedies weren’t going on 20 or 200 years ago (I bet mass communication has nothing to do with it)? How do you explain arts in your theory of human motivation? Failing to follow the reasoning of your social and political observations is, I’m afraid, again on the list of my shortcomings. But what worries me most is the utter lack of success in my attempts to understand what exactly did you mean by “We are trying things like the LHC, to make anti-matter, projects to reverse time, and many other perversions of nature. It is due to this that I believe that entropy in the top half of its 100%.”

Come to think of it, the number of things that makes me stare with disbelief vastly exceeds the number of things on which I’m able to make a valuable and constructive comment, as it goes, so for the time being I’ll cease all attempts. Meanwhile, would you consider constructing a more sustainable essay, perhaps concentrating on ideas with diligence and try, please try to make a valuable point.

I think that considering entropy as an increase of disorder has done a huge disservice to the concept of entropy. There are different meanings to the term “disorder” when it’s used in physics and when it’s used to speak about societal disorder. It’s better to think of entropy as the tendency to maximize the number of ways of arranging units of energy among particles or something along that line. Before I really knew about statistical entropy, I too did make this connection between entropic decay and societal decay, but I would not do it now. No physical process takes place which does not increase entropy. The peaceful growing of that plant in your pot is increasing overall entropy.

To simplify it, entropy is the fragmentation of forces.

Did you know that your explanation of entropy (and probably the currently accepted explanation) is very well in line with Indian Philosophy, for example the following fragment of the Bhagavad Gita (In which Brahma is referred to as The Creator):

The knowers of true “day” and “night”
Know Brahma’s Day and Brahma’s Night
Are each a thousand yugas long–
And each one comes unto an end.
(8:17)

At the approach of Brahma’s Day,
All manifested things come forth
From the unmanifest, and then
Return to that at Brahma’s Night.
(8:18)

The way in which greed encourages this entropy would then be an aspect of the law of karma.

From the Indian perspective, this would be the main illusion which prevents us from seeing the Truth. Nothing is ridiculous.