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Entropy doesn't really apply here: the idea that it always increases only holds in closed systems.
by scarmig 5y ago
Entropy 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.