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Note that this question can also be asked at a competitor's website: Multivax. :-P I surely do hope that we can collect sufficient data in here. ;-) What is Entropy? It's actually one of the holy pillars of today's conventional science. It's basically a little fancier elaboration on the laws of thermodynamics which we surely have all learnt about in school. Entropy basically means that everything goes from order to chaos. Order basically stands for the energy and structure we need to survive. For example, after we burnt a piece of wood, we cannot reconstruct that piece of wood from the smoke anymore. If we tried to catch all smoke particles in order to do so, we would have to invest a lot of effort and energy, in turn creating much more entropy and chaos than the order that we desperately tried to restore. This principle inspired the great Isaac Asimov to this beautiful little short story: The Last Question. Here you will learn what the introductory Multivax is all about. I have my own take on this but I guess I will formulate it into a new question the other day. |
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You can't reconstruct the burnt piece of wood, but you can grow a new tree. When you grow a new tree, the tree takes energy from the sun and uses it to convert raw materials (carbon dioxide, water, etc.) into organized structures. This is how entropy is reversed (if only temporarily, and of course on a much smaller scale than in Asimov's story). All living things create order from disorder by using energy to build ever more complex and intricate structures. lolz the system is asking me "have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?" ... it surely should be worth some of my points as a bounty to solve the ultimate question of mankind, shouldn't it? But I guess I'll rather take your answer instead ... this is along the lines I also believe, which leads to the next question about what life really is: http://www.inwardquest.com/questions/3217/can-we-create-artificial-life
(15 Jan '10, 01:09)
herzmeister
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previous links no longer work. the last question was answered by achieving oneness in hyperspace. IMHo, entropy is based upon the following presumptions about the universe: nature of time and closed/isolated system. i hope for greater acceleration in the paradigm shift of the scientific community. I hope that LHC experiments will instead produce evidences supporting quantum mysticism. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: don, what if there are differences as; always was, self begotten, begotten and entropy plays her role in what has been begotten. knowing the purpose and allowing that to be minimizes early entropy
(21 Mar '13, 14:55)
fred
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That's a really good story. Asimov was a genius.