me...

i ask childishly demanding questions of a lot of people, but i have a suspicion that few walk away as confounded as physicists.

According to contemporary physics (and consequently, popular theory), a fundamental attribute of our universe over time is that it tends toward higher levels of entropy or disorder. A broken egg is irreparable, a released gas irretrievable. However, i find this perspective one-sided, and incapable.

Because the Big Bang dispersed it, the universe has been cooling, which ironically brought about forces (gravity, electromagnetism, and the nuclear) that tend toward order.

So instead of a stubbornly separatist universe, it seems to me that this fragile phenomenon life exists because there is conflict or balance.

Current Mood: less than anticipatory, more than wondering
Current Music: "I've never been so lost, I've never felt so much at home" - I Woke Up In A Car, Something Corporate

posted by Arthur @ 9/16/2002 12:36:00 AM

Monday, September 16, 2002