Thermo-Dynamic Society

[13] previous     /     first slide To summarize the self-organizing creative effec t of matter via its own gravity one final time: Due to its very own property of " gravity ", matter in the universe mutually attracts and accumulates itself in confined spaces, leaving nothing or emptiness behind. Thus, on the one hand, it concentrates empty space (regardless of whether this expands , contracts , or neither ); and on the other hand, matter transforms itself by nuclear reaction , in its resulting centers of gravity , over time with exponentially increasing speed, raising the number of elements from just a few to the count of about 100 which are known to us; then it scatters these explosively into empty space again. These new elements then condense themselves into new (if smaller) centers of gravity , where, by chemical reaction , millions of different molecules are formed, with variants and mixtures; from these, if possible, living tis...

[12] previous     /     next slide C. The laws of thermodynamics , which govern movement through heat and heat through movement, apply universally in time and space. However, they apply only if it actually is a thermodynamic process, where mass and energy are preserved - in nuclear processes, for instance, they are not . Where applicable, these laws state that - contrary to the former concepts of ideal , eternal , reversible mechanics ( action = reaction ) - processes in reality do not proceed without a loss . The universe is not symmetrical ; as stated, it is directed , especially in terms of time . All (esp. all thermodynamic) operations, especially all processes of life , are deficitary and irreversible . These inevitable losses must be compensated for, before they even arise. Since material thermodynamics cannot function in the negative , with less than nothing, their losses must be overcome by a surplus in advance , fo...

[11] previous     /     next slide B. The second law of thermodynamics is in force everywhere and always . Any thermodynamic work process - and every economic process is necessarily thermodynamic , since matter is always moved under the participation of entropy and energy - contains a necessary , inevitable loss . However, this loss is not reflected in the economic balance sheets, except as a price for resources ; and even then only as the cost of thermodynamics , i. e. as the costs for their procurement . If there are no resources there, then there is no profit to be made in mining; but the resources themselves are always free, be they oil, ore, or moving air (the reversal of this view states that the nonexistent price of a resource does not reflect the cost of providing it). At the beginning of every economic chain, something therefore is for free - and this something is created by gravity , and is provided for free of ch...

[10] previous     /     next slide A. Creation, physically speaking , is a directed , dynamic , continuous process from the beginning to the end of all time - of which humans are just a temporary , local expression ; but in being so they are still, like everything else, from the galaxy to to the atom, created in the likeness of Creation - or of the Creator , if God is accepted to be greater than his human visualization . The existence , the shape and the dynamics of the universe, including its conscious content , is based on rules which have been portrayed in various creation myths - especially in the biblical one - which, most likely, were shaped by observations ; most notably those of creation through order , and of order through separation . This arranging , separating and creating force is continuously (!) active as " gravity ", in every second and for all eternity ; if not, and wherever not, the structure of the universe would ...

[9] previous     /     next slide To make matters worse, there may have been a tactical error made - explicitly only possibly made - in the since then revised definition of entropy of 1865 that itself was never revised; and, to this day, may prevent the equation to be solved in reality . This may result in an inability to theoretically describe the initial state of the universe correctly, especially on the point that order can arise from chaos - which the history of the universe, as far as we know it, does show. After all, beyond any creed, the question of all questions is: What created, purely physically created, from of a cold, dark, swirling cloud of dust, complex humans on a tiny glowing liquid drop of matter in empty space, orbiting the nuclear furnace of a star - and what keeps them there alive? It cannot be their own harvest work ; for that is minute in comparison, and relies on an external supply. Life cannot create its own ...

[8] previous     /     next slide 3) Within science itself , ever since 1850 , the modern world view failed to apply its newly- found laws of thermodynamics to existence as a whole , not just to particular processes. For if every thermodynamic process needs a source and a sink to level out the potential between these two, but cannot produce that potential precisely because of this, then the origin of all sources and sinks cannot be thermodynamic (this would violate the prohibition of a perpetuum mobile ). How, then, did energy and movement come about in the universe? As long as God could be taken as the external, non-physical source of all being, all events, all life, order and creation, there was nothing to think about; the omnipotence of God was the answer and solution to every paradox. However, when science itself came up with the demand for a purely scientific, secular view of the world, it became in need of a different explana...

[7] previous     /     next slide 2) In economics , the modern world view fails to apply the laws of thermodynamics (especially the second one) to humans and their actions . As formulated by Rudolf Clausius in 1850 , every thermodynamic work process , in order to take place at all (and any energy-driven, material, economic process is necessarily thermodynamic due to these very properties) must render an inescapable net loss (and even the re-production of one's own self, in a twenty-year production process, must be so defined). This necessary loss accumulates down the labor and food chain, at the beginning (!) of which it must be compensated for, and that free of charge , or else this chain will immediately break: In the real, material, physical world, there is no such thing as " debt ": something exists, or it does not. What is missing in the end must be superfluous at the beginning - not just balanced ; this primary surplus then limits ...

[6] previous     /     next slide 1) In religion , the modern world view fails to seriously and consistently apply the discoveries published by Charles Darwin in 1859 ; above all to humans themselves. By not accepting that Creation , especially that of biological species, is an evolutionary, dynamic, eternal process, it looks upon it in a pre- Darwinian manner as static and homocentric , something to be preserved or changed (exclusively by man ). By now contrary to better knowledge, it still sees the world (and man) as fully evolved , albeit flawed, and optimizable only in the context of " self - optimization " with self-set goals, in one's own sense - so far (and probably henceforth as well) with very dubious results. Before, in pre-Darwinian times, all and everything was in the end made and given by God (and regally assigned) and therefore stayed within His responsibility. This world view was consistent in itself; but now tha...

[5] previous     /     next slide Up to the event of industrialization , a rigid, albeit slowly changing world view had prompted a mitigated hierarchy just as rigid : Man was the image of God upon this world, but dependent on the whims of both; he was lord over the animals, but ultimately depended on them, and plants as well. Man had to work hard for his daily bread, but without God's grace there would not be even that. Man was the crown of Creation that had taken place some time ago , but still dependent on it like an infant. And so on. Despite these and other paradoxes, this world view, as a whole , was coherent - and still is. But with the advent of mechanized , industrial mass production , this perception changed fundamentally , though not completely . In the relevant areas of religion , economy and science , new and fundamental questions arose: Is man in the image of God or just a whim of nature? Is man the worldly...

[4] previous     /     next slide The question of value enhancement through labor was inadvertently addressed by Rudolf Clausius , who in the time of 1850 - 1865 published his physical theories on the constantly evolving steam engine and its mechanical progeny. Less well known publicly than Marx or Darwin , he studied the physical basis of heat or combustion engines and formulated after them the laws of heat mechanics , partly known as the first and second law of thermodynamics . Above all, these stated that real " added value " could not be generated by such a machine. [And, to be clear, man, as any animal, is one] On the contrary: The operation of a heat engine alone generates a physical , i. e. real , loss - and this relentlessly so; work always creates an inferior or subtracted value , as compared to the initial situation. Every step along the way worsens the preconditions for the next; resources that cannot be repl...

[3] previous     /     next slide Just a decade after Darwin , in 1867 , Karl Marx , consciously or not, (re-) instated the idea of human divinity by declaring human labor within the production process to be the sole creator , more or less, of what he named " added " or " surplus value ", and therefore value per se. This extra value was then, as he proposed, extorted from its producers by the exploiters of labor as something called money or capital ; and this forever until the exploiters would be done away with, and the means of production (machines et al) were socialized into the collective of laborers . Now, if humans are the sole creators of value, then this exploitation of labor can affect only humans , not animals or powered machines ; even though the latter " means of production " were at the time just beginning to replace , not just complement humans as a main factor of production (as had hitherto animals - all three ...

[2] previous     /     next slide In 1859 , Charles Darwin published his observations on the origin of species , which introduced the concept of evolution into the social discussion: not only in the field of biology , but, as a side effect, in geology as well; the world was no longer static , a completed creation, but a dynamic one, constantly evolving; or at least it had been in the past . However, Creation itself was still in some way considered to be complete and static , at least as far as it was projected into the future ; meaning that evolution may have been the way things had developed up to the present , but no further ; the question why this should be so was carefully avoided. This is just one of the many unsolved paradoxes and mysteries resulting from the incomplete implementation of the discoveries made during the era of industrialization: If the world and its human inhabitants are the result of an evolutionary process, then that ...

[1] Ex nihilo nihil fit. (Nothing happens by itself) last     /     next slide The enlightened society has had an unsolved problem for 150 years now - more than one . It has never fully re-oriented itself. When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness ( Alexis de Tocqueville 1805-1859 ) Who was the contemporary of Charles Robert Darwin 1809 – 1882 Karl Heinrich Marx 1818 - 1883 Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius 1822 - 1888 Note the dates. " The LORD giveth, and the LORD taketh away " - "European" man before about 1870. " The Lord can stay where he is. I can make it all by myself " - "European" man after about 1870. In their hubris, “Westeners” of all denominations overlook the fact that they do not " make " anything, but only transform it, so that their work is subject to entropy ; the one thing humans can " make " is something immaterial like money...