Thursday, January 28, 2010

Entropy - Revisited

I'm at work, and I'm staring at my snack container of dehydrated blueberries, cranberries and walnuts. How delicious! But as I look at my container of trail mix, I see Entropy at work. Entropy is a measure of the number of ways in which a system may be arranged, often taking to be a measure of disorder. I also see thermodynamics at work as well.

So, you may ask yourself, how can my trail mix be so entertaining? It's because there's not a lot of difference between us, the world around us, and my container of trail mix. My trail mix is still thermodynamically at work, processing oxygen and progressively getting stale. And that's exactly what happens as we get older. Our bodies progressively get stale. Although our personalities may not. Us heat transference mechanisms are always at work, aren't they?

Don't you love all the doom and gloom I blog about? I know, it sucks. All we are is dust in the wind. Wow... That might make a great song. Let us meditate over this at level 3. That's a Zardoz reference, FYI.


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