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originally posted by: Phantom423
You apparently missed this in the article:
Glotzer explains that this isn't really disorder creating order—entropy needs its image updated. Instead, she describes it as a measure of possibilities. If you could turn off gravity and empty a bag full of dice into a jar, the floating dice would point every which way. However, if you keep adding dice, eventually space becomes so limited that the dice have more options to align face-to-face. The same thing happens to the nanoparticles, which are so small that they feel entropy's influence more strongly than gravity's.
"It's all about options. In this case, ordered arrangements produce the most possibilities, the most options. It's counterintuitive, to be sure,"
Entropy is a thermodynamic quantity of a system that is not available for any type of work. It's hidden. It can't be used. As the author said, the old terminology of "disorder" like the shoes in your closet, is not entropy. It's simply a sloppy closet full of disordered shoes.
originally posted by: TinfoilTP
originally posted by: Phantom423
You apparently missed this in the article:
Glotzer explains that this isn't really disorder creating order—entropy needs its image updated. Instead, she describes it as a measure of possibilities. If you could turn off gravity and empty a bag full of dice into a jar, the floating dice would point every which way. However, if you keep adding dice, eventually space becomes so limited that the dice have more options to align face-to-face. The same thing happens to the nanoparticles, which are so small that they feel entropy's influence more strongly than gravity's.
"It's all about options. In this case, ordered arrangements produce the most possibilities, the most options. It's counterintuitive, to be sure,"
Entropy is a thermodynamic quantity of a system that is not available for any type of work. It's hidden. It can't be used. As the author said, the old terminology of "disorder" like the shoes in your closet, is not entropy. It's simply a sloppy closet full of disordered shoes.
So she has to change the definition of entropy to say entropy is causing order......making up the rules as they go along.
Maybe we can all pick words in the dictionary that are used to define Physics and magic bang boom, we bend physics to our will. Comical.
originally posted by: AnuTyr
I think tinfoil is just trying to make a point that all the life on Earth could of been seeded by a higher consiousness.
It's much more likely than all this complexity arising from nothing. Life takes ingredients in matter and multiplies based on it.
originally posted by: AnuTyr
It might even be possible that for such a thing to happen for the ratio of oxygen to be so high there would have to be more land mass. More land mass means less water.
So if there was less water during the time of the dinosaurs. How did all this exass water arrive on our tiny green dot orbiting our small star?