Entropy never dies. That story.

[David Morris]

I think the phrase was "little pockets of order," as opposed to the general
state of increasing disorder.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:46 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> those little pockets of disorder are a nice metaphor for Pynchon's imagined
> utopias:hippie communes, anarchist spaces, DeepArcher and family
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 5:11 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > *love the line phrase: "contraptions that squeeze out the disorder that
> is
> > locked inside of matter"*
> >
> > *From an interview with Somebody Greene, physicist with a new book.
> > Guardian interview. *
> >
> > *"In your book, you talk about the rising disorder – the increasing
> entropy
> > – of the universe, and how that shapes its future. If the universe is
> > becoming more and more disordered, why do stars, planets and people form?
> > "*
> > "This is absolutely fundamental. The beauty of the second law of
> > thermodynamics is that while it stipulates that the overall amount of
> > disorder has to increase, little pockets of order can form so long as, in
> > the process, they create enough disorder in the surrounding environment
> to
> > compensate. For stars and planets, we can establish that the formation
> > process discards enough waste and disorder to the surrounding environment
> > that the overall disorder goes up. Indeed, we humans are contraptions
> that
> > squeeze out the disorder that is locked inside of matter. We eat things,
> we
> > breathe, and when we metabolise all that we take in, we use it to create
> > our internal order, to grow bigger, stronger and so forth, but in the
> > process we release enough heat and waste so that the overall disorder
> > balance sheet is totally in the direction of disorder."
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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