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Strange how correct the bible can be on that point, or rather the new testament. The whole idea of what Jesus preached was just, that before turning the head of others you badly needed to turn your own head. To tell someone to do what you say, not what you do, is a dead end.
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And as I'm no saint
I'm most probably not the right person to tell you. But, I think it's still the most important thing anyone can do with their life. To turn ones head a little, and realize that it is a shrinking planet. And it has a direct connection to if we plan or not. If we don't plan, which is my thesis, then this is the only way we ever will be able to make a change.
Do you get this?
Read it again.
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Crazy demands, isn't it?
Well, that's what practical solutions are good for. One kid per person is a decision you can take by yourself. If we agreed on that one we would do something monumental. We would enlarge this planet, its resources, and create a better living for us all. Because our population would shrink.
The old ways, the church way, and the free markets way, was (still is, depending) more and more consumers. Reproduce, as often and fast as possible, enabling me to become that happy millionaire selling my ideas, and materials. And remember, you can become one too, following this glorious plan for our future, btw, I promise, it's enjoyable too
Old ideals, and old ways.
That was before prophylactics
And modern societies so involved in making careers that family life takes a second position to ones self interests (career).
A life worth living?
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Where does heat go?
when you have a material that gets heated then you have a interaction between radiation and matter, or matter matter but that also must by necessity involve vibrational states transfered by radiation. If you then want to call this radiation photons or waves I will leave aside for the moment.
Then you have phase transitions. Those are states where, as a example, water getting heated starts to produce water vapor (steam). As such states occur the temperature (heat transfer from one material to another) won't change as measure by your thermometer. The reason is explained as what happens at those points are internal, in this case the phase transition from water to steam is occurring.
Phase transitions is about states relating to rest mass, as I think?
How would a universe of pure radiation be able to have a phase transition?
Can it? And even worse, how would you define 'energy' to have it?
You have to differ the concept of 'energy' from radiation. Radiation contain energy, everything I know of is presumed to contain energy, it's the coin of exchange. But 'energy' without anything expressing it? No photons and no waves?
can that exist?
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Then we have the idea of a 'heat death'. How is that possible in a infinite universe? If I presume expansion and inflation to be correct, as well as the definition of there being no center to the universe, how does this heat mellows out, so to speak? If we had walls to this universe you might have one definition of it, but then we also would have to consider the kinetic energy of radiation, or 'radiative pressure'
acting on those 'walls'. Without 'walls', and with a infinite universe one idea might be that the expansion is driven by heat? It's a really weird one, as you either need to assume that this 'energy', in a expanding universe, assuming you want to keep the universe in a equilibrium, will be 'inserted' from 'nowhere' as needed to fit a expansion, alternatively that it isn't 'inserted', which then accelerate the heat loss? And if so, how could a inflation work? A inflation faster than light of the room we exist in.
And what about conservation of energy here? If I want to take that seriously, can I allow new 'energy to 'materialize from nowhere' to keep our infinite universe in a equilibrium? The whole idea of conservation of energy more or less presumes the universe to have way of stopping leaks, doesn't it? So we would need to have a very weird mechanism, considering that this new 'energy' needed, just would have to be 'inserted' as to fit our internal equilibrium, no more and no less, assuming conservation laws
And how does a heat death ends up? What is its final state? It needs matter to exist as I think. If I want to think of a heat death, doesn't I have to assume that everything exist in a same state then? What about those internal phase transitions? The 'energy' of this universe can't go down, not if you think it conserved, it can only transform. Assuming a expansion and a infinite amount of energy, as fitting a infinite universe, but still in a equilibrium as that follow logically from conservation laws, you need a way to keep that equilibrium. you might assume that it could drive a expansion somehow though? But then you also must assume that we would see that in, for example, a otherwise unexplainable heat loss?
Why it follows logically? Well, as I think then. You want a 'closed universe' in some indefinable (for now) way, if you want conservation laws. Because without that there can be no conservation of energy. And if you treat that universe instant by instant, then each instant should present a equilibrium existing. You can't have parts differing, some 'new' without 'energy' getting 'filled' by that set amount energy you then assume the universe to constantly have. Maybe the question should be how a expansion fits conservation laws?
If I on the other hand think of it as a symmetry break? Then it shouldn't be a isolated existence, although it easily could be so described from a inside of it, which are where we are. It's about getting something from 'nowhere' then
Or if it is a projection of sorts?
this idea of indefinable walls 'existing' in a infinite expanding, once inflating ftl, universe makes me head ache. And presuming there being no center to it, the expansion occurring in each point, what are those walls?
Yeah, weird thoughts indeed?
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And then there is a last thought. The whole idea of transformations without loss of energy, as it should only be transformed. Isn't that a sort of perpetuum mobile. Not that is doesn't stop, as per entropy, but it seems that there is no ultimate cost involved in it? Because if there was, I would assume some energy to be lost irrecoverably, 'disappearing', if you see how I think here?
But energy don't get lost?
It transforms
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And that should bring us to the concept of information loss. Useful information relative unuseable. In a 'conserved' universe, can there be a loss of information? Writing something on ice cube, is the information lost as the ice melt?
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Every definition we have presume time, doesn't it?
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Still, we live by our minds. Most of the things we believe in are mind concepts, thoughts. Mathematics is a way to describe logics, because that is what we presume this universe to build on. So is there a ultimate logic describing everything? Would you want to state that entropy explains complexity? From a seed to a tree? Or the way you can imagine up something, or the way we exchange information?
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Is it a information universe? Think of a quantum computer, assume all paths taken 'simultaneously, the probability defining a outcome. Consider that 'timeless instant' as another way to look at the universe. Would you then expect all thoughts there ever have been and will be, to co-exist there too?
Probability builds on experience collected through time, statistics. Studying the statistics one can theorize about what logical laws there should be, describing why the statistics behave as they do.
Everything involves time.
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Entropy Is Simple — If We Avoid The Briar Patches!
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It's really nice that link. Did you read it?
Had it before and will probably link it whenever entropy is discussed. Entropy is a way of life it seems, or better expressed, a way of time.
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Notice how easy he makes it, that's the sign of a clear mind to me. We have some people here that have that ability
maybe not me though, heh.
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If you read it you might be able to answer if complexity and entropy is the same. At least I think so, it's not the same. If you take a plant it uses entropy to add to its complexity, the complexity of it goes up at the same time as the entropy increase. Now this may sound as it is the same but it's not. When entropy increase it disperses, like milk, spontaneously mixing with coffee. Complexity is something else, and it's about everything of matter, living and growing. I don't know how else to express it?
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Let us assume all processes going backwards? the broken cup assembles. You grow young instead of old. Now that is a reversal of time, and some think it's possible. I don't find it possible myself, and that you can reverse the movie is to me just a result of there existing a logic. For the universe to contain a logic you should be able to reverse it, assuming you have all parameters involved (very theoretically naturally). Sometimes you also see time reversals described as still fitting entropy, those of you reading this link above, would you agree to that?
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So, what about it?
Does God exist?
Depends on what attributes you expect it him, or her, to have, doesn't it? You want God to know every sparrow that falls to the ground? Then you probably also want him/her to be responsible for this universe we exist in too. I wouldn't want any God to feel responsible for that
It should reasonably quick put him/her (it?) under the care of a divine shrink, if he/her though she/he was. I think we are responsible, although that's a rather unpopular view of life, isn't it?
We always want someone, or something, to blame, don't we?
But I do think we have to take the responsibility here. We are what we make it to be. If you think this way then the next question becomes, what do we want it to be? And that's a lot trickier? What do we want to become? Animals, fighting for existence? Well, that not too bad, as long as no animal sticks out from the horde, as we do. Because we do, we're not the same as the other animals, we invent things, we have 'ideals' and 'visions'
All to often those include greed and expanding ones territory, one way or another. Not too different from any other animal, is it? If they just could. So what do you think, can we become caretakers? If so, on whose terms? Earths as a whole, or just from the perspective of what a human may want, as always, shortsightedly.
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Complexity isn't about physics per se. It's about thoughts, and words, creating new ideas and possibilities. It's about that, not theoretical, yet very theoretical layer, that creates your mathematics, and your ideals, and your dreams, and hopes for the future. And that one grows in the direction of the arrow, it doesn't dissolve.
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Let's assume the universe consist of information. Why does it use complexity? And why does the complexity grow? It's about logics, and also about emotions and feelings. It may well be so that you can translate those into a logic, creating them. Just as your taste can be translated to geometrical formations, more or less, fitting your taste buds.
Would that make love meaningless?
Or hope?
It's like mirrors of a same universe, one consisting of the mathematics defining it, the other consisting of what comes from a constantly growing complexity.
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In a way it is about those shadows on the wall, but the shadows are us. We don't define a taste from some mathematical or chemical definition of a geometrical formation, we define it from what we experience as we taste it. It's 'sweet' or 'sour' or 'salt', add infinitum.
No use ignoring this fact.
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And pain, does it hurt you? All animals should be able to experience pain, the question might be in what way (how) they translate it. and that one belongs to their complexity as living organisms I think. But pain will still be pain.
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What might the the goal of complexity be? The goal of entropy seems to be a quiet dissolving, but what about complexity?
What is the state of a true quantum computer, before we find it to deliver a outcome?
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