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Delay death as you will, but thermodynamics will always have the last laugh.
by mensetmanusman 2y ago
Delay death as you will, but thermodynamics will always have the last laugh.
- xvector 2y agoOne dollar or a million - which would you rather have?
- YurgenJurgensen 2y agoIronically, your example shows the main flaw of your position: Dollars are only worth what you can buy with them.
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoNearly all of humanities pursuits is giving the middle finger to entropy. Yes, we're accelerating it's eventual win, but in the short term we're comfortable.
- goatlover 2y agoForget quantillions of years, It would be nice to live a few centuries without the ravages of old age.
- grishka 2y agoThermodynamics only applies to closed systems. Living beings are open systems because they constantly exchange energy and matter with their surroundings. Earth is also an open system because it receives energy from the sun (and, to a much lesser degree, from other stars), and sometimes things from outer space fall here.
- YurgenJurgensen 2y agoHubble expansion makes everything a closed system in the long term.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoEntropy applies across the universe. We know the minimum entropy it started with, where we are now, and the maximum entropy possible. We are about halfway there.