Yeah, I follow that. But I'm disagreeing with equating useful and living with ordered. The water at the bottom is not less ordered, it is only less useful to certain points of view.Malik23 wrote:We can continue this in the Loresraat, if you want. But briefly, what you're describing is called the "heat death" of the universe. When all particles are uniformly distributed, it's the same as all useful energy bleeding away in the form of heat. Heat loss during work is a measure of inefficiency of a process. In a universe of uniform distribution, absolutely nothing can be done. It is death.Fist and Faith wrote:That whole entropy thing's always annoyed me. Everybody always says higher order is, say, a cup, and higher disorder is the cup broken in pieces on the floor. But I think the highest level of order would be if every ultimate-particle (whatever the most basic particle of matter/energy is) was perfectly evenly distributed throughout the universe? We need to break cups, people! Break them, then grind the pieces to dust, then throw the dust into the wind! Come on, folks, we're burning daylight! Let's get this universe in order!!
Imagine it like this: useful energy--the kind that runs living beings--is like water at the top of a waterfall. It is potential-energy-turning-into-kinetic-energy. As the water falls, you can extract energy from it and do useful things like turning turbines and lighting homes. But once it is at the bottom, it's useless. The only way it becomes useful again is with an external input of energy from the sun, evaporating it, lifting it back to the sky, so that it can fall again and produce kinetic energy. Except at the "heat death," all the stars have run down, too. Nothing recharges the system. All the water has utterly fallen to its lowest level, and nothing will lift it back up again.
Hey, I'm just having fun with the words.
I'm being philosophical about the words the scientific community has chosen for this topic.HehMalik23 wrote:[I wonder if this is related to caesures being called, falls?]
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