Go on to the next article / content Gravity and the Thermodynamics of Human Economy and Existence The prerequisitions of life The physical order of the material world The source and the sink Fast forward to life on Earth You cannot short-circuit a thermodynamic process and then expect it to go on A perhaps clearer summary of the above A Second Opinion The prerequisitions of life " What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of he orderliness (=fairly low level of entropy) really consists continually sucking orderliness from its environment. ... An organism's astonishing gift of concentrating a 'stream of order' on itself and thus escaping that the decay into atomic chaos - of 'drinking orderliness' from a suitable environment - seems to be co...
Conversations with Grok II Inverting the formula for entropy [Again Grok 3 beta / highlighted, abridged and edited] Spring 2025 Note / History: This idea turned up - I don't remember in what context - as a quasi-serious consequence of recognizing entropy-reducing gravity as the prime force and prerequisite for thermodynamics in the universe ordering itself , in which neither the amount of energy nor mass is constant, the instant gravity-induced nuclear fusion takes place - except in the aforementioned, gravity-invoked thermodynamic processes, which are the subject of the following discussion. 1 A point here is that the universe may be difficult to be subsumed under one single Theory of Everything ; energy and mass may be equivalent, but they are not equal: standing on a pile of rocks being hit by solar radiation is not the same as the other way around. It may be that the Universe is not only asymmetri...