Science, Narrative, and Agency in Gravity's Rainbow-two questions

[R. Fiero]

Jumping the gun a bit to be talking about Godel and Chaos in 
GR.  Mr. Pynchon stays in character and in the time of his 
texts.  What is in GR are a lot of delta t's, Operational 
Research, C3I and clever science managers. There is also some 
coding and decoding [Bomb dropped on Hiroshima].

In M&D, he is restricted to a pre-Energetics mechanics:
"Opposition of these Electrophiles, whose wish is ever to 
observe their admir'd Fluid in its least mediated form."

In V. there is really no thermodynamics but it's coming:
"In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard 
man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with 
Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in 
thermodynamics going on, man was looked on more as a 
heat-engine, about 40 per cent efficient."

By the time of COL49:
"Since the Demon only sat and sorted, you wouldn't have put any 
real work into the system. So you would be violating the Second 
Law of Thermodynamics, getting something for nothing, causing 
perpetual , motion. "Sorting isn't work?" Oedipa said. "Tell 
them down at the post office, you'll find yourself in a mailbag 
headed for Fairbanks, Alaska, without even a FRAGILE sticker going for you."