Economics, Science, and Religion 12

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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, for anything to happen at all, and therefore anything to be even created at all - in a purely thermodynamic setting.

Once again, if the emergence of the universe had been a thermodynamic process, as is life itself, it would have been possible only with a source and a sink outside of the universe, a potential greater than its entire energy content.

And even after the manifestation of the mass of the entire universe, the act of creation would have come to an immediate standstill, if there was no such external potential, for which once stood the omnipotence of God.


However, within the universe, such gradients exist for real, spontaneously and continuously arising from gravity itself; and with these, so does the act of creation, again within the universe - as long as this contains mass.

For as matter mutually attracts matter in space, it accumulates itself in one location, in which it further increases its gravitation; and the surrounding space is emptied of matter, which further reduces the gravitation there.

The emergence of a gravity gradient, therefore, is driven by a process of continuous self-reinforcement, which is completely forbidden in the range of thermodynamics; a perpetuum mobile is created, of eternal, self-augmenting movement, in extremis leading to a black hole.

This self-enhancement generates the necessary surplus potential which must be introduced as an advance for subsequent self-reduction - of that potential - in a thermodynamic processes thus made possible downstream, where it is extracted and booked as profit (minus the technically necessary remainder, of course).


Gravitational events are therefore, in the thermodynamic sense, profitable processes, but upstream of thermodynamics, that feed themselves (in stars) off the annihilation of matter (E=mc²).


These gravitational processes create not only material things, such as light and energy, but also, and above all, abstract properties such as order and complexity; and thus the potential offered, free of charge, at the beginning of every utilization chain - and with that, the basis of all wealth, including bare life itself.


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