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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / If the Universe is tending towards disorder, how was it ordered to start with?
« on: 25/06/2016 13:53:11 »
The second law of Thermodynamics states that a system tends to disorganization, and thus the Universe so tends.
It's easy to notice that my house will become very disorganized in future if I do nothing, and perhaps my head, too.
This happens in the first instance because I have my house organized, otherwise it couldn't tend to disorganization.
My FIRST question is how can the Universe be organized first so that it will tend to disorganization as stated by the second law of Thermodynamics, thus first violating it?
This is my SECOND question:
It's a tenet that life is an exception to that law and this is accepted because the global entropy doesn't stop increasing because of the creation of law.
This tenet is evident given the paucity of life in such a huge universe. However, for it to be true that life can originate as long as it doesn't imply that entropy will decrease, then there must be a physical process that guaranteed that the global entropy won't decrease even when there are violations as the creation of life.
These are perhaps philosophical questions which I find very interesting unless something very basic is escaping me. This is challenge.
It's easy to notice that my house will become very disorganized in future if I do nothing, and perhaps my head, too.
This happens in the first instance because I have my house organized, otherwise it couldn't tend to disorganization.
My FIRST question is how can the Universe be organized first so that it will tend to disorganization as stated by the second law of Thermodynamics, thus first violating it?
This is my SECOND question:
It's a tenet that life is an exception to that law and this is accepted because the global entropy doesn't stop increasing because of the creation of law.
This tenet is evident given the paucity of life in such a huge universe. However, for it to be true that life can originate as long as it doesn't imply that entropy will decrease, then there must be a physical process that guaranteed that the global entropy won't decrease even when there are violations as the creation of life.
These are perhaps philosophical questions which I find very interesting unless something very basic is escaping me. This is challenge.