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Everything we have discovered so far indicates that entropy is inevitable.
by bloopernova 5y ago
Everything we have discovered so far indicates that entropy is inevitable.
- sokoloff 5y agoEntropy is inevitable. It’s not at all obvious that aging is primarily an entropic process.
- XorNot 5y agoSpecifically: the cells you're made of are the product of an older organism. We all descend from older people yet are born as young people. So clearly, the progression is not inevitable, otherwise the human race wouldn't be here.
- scarmig 5y agoEntropy doesn't really apply here: the idea that it always increases only holds in closed systems.
- voldacar 5y agoThis is true in theory but in practice it doesn't really make the problem solvable. Go show me your machine that turns an omelette into an egg.
- Filligree 5y agoIt's called a chicken.
- voldacar 5y agoYou have not really restored the omelette to its original state. That just destroys the egg and uses its energy to power a machine that creates a new one. The aging analogy would be destroying old people and feeding them to pregnant mothers. This is obviously not a solution to aging.
- dwaltrip 5y agoIt seems to me that aging is not as destructive as cracking an egg. It is certainly more gradual. So perhaps that is a more tractable problem.
- ifdefdebug 5y agoIt's called "chicken": you feed in the omelette and a new egg comes out behind.
- zabzonk 5y agoCannibalism does not seem to be much favoured by life (though of course it does happen), for a variety of reasons.
- scarmig 5y agoWell, we know how to unboil an egg: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/28/how-and-why-chemists-figured-out-how-to-unboil-an-egg/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2... Give me a $100M budget, and I'm pretty confident I could run a project to revert an omelette into an egg.
- ryeights 5y agoEntropy can be increased locally, the human body is not a closed system. Otherwise, how would humans have even come to exist?