<p>is rising (overall) :D.</p>
<p>I learned this word from Kill Bill :D</p>
<p>I used a dictionary and still have no idea what you meant by your statement.</p>
<p>well i mean… the 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of the universe is always increasing… which theoretically might end up in the “heat death of the universe” (uh oh!)</p>
<p>The first thing I thought of was the equation for Gibbs’ Free Energy.</p>
<p>I don’t really understand that equation. yet.</p>
<p>basically the universe is getting more and more chaotic, there’s nothing we can do about it</p>
<p>How can the net entropy of the universe be reduced?</p>
<p>Well, entropy is sort of a paradox- you create entropy by trying to reduce it. So, yeah, not much we can do about it.</p>
<p>my friend explained this to me during lunch two days ago, and my mind exploded.</p>
<p>I think that one day Kelvinist theory (named after the old lame joke: I believe in the heat death of the Universe. I’m a Kelvinist.) will join the list of other crackpot ideas.</p>
<p>Such as:
Expanding Earth
Open Polar Sea
Visual Emission Theory
Emitter Theory</p>
<p>^ I find it impressive that you know about all those ideas :).</p>
<p>Maybe I’m wrong, but I would think those theories were probably the best ones people could come up with to fit the (limited) data they were working with at the time. Sure, they might be easily disproved nowadays, but that doesn’t make me unappreciative of them.</p>
<p>my guess is the heat death prediction won’t join that list, but only because I think there’s a good probability humanity won’t get the chance to add it to that list before a huge trans formative event intercedes, and changes the landscape of everything entirely. Not because humanity isn’t theoretically capable of figuring out whether it’s valid or not.</p>
<p>Know why living things are able to retain organization even as they become increasingly complex? Logically speaking, entropy would lead a more complex system to be more chaotic. </p>
<p>Living things, though, have a funny way of <em>draining</em> “order” out of their environment and putting it towards their use. Thus, you end up with an evolutionary history that shows simpler organisms transmuting into more complex ones by these means.</p>
<p>Whoa…</p>
<p>Actually enfield the only reason that I know about so many antiquated theories is that I took a class in Steampunk writing where I wrote a paper about antiquated theories and pseudoscience. It actually was the most fun class I have ever taken so I remember some of it.</p>
<p>Hm I learned that in bio last week.</p>
<p>Pointless thread tho.</p>