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From: David Stoddard ENTROPY #1
The "Zeroth" principle of the second law of thermodynamics has
that an isolated/closed system remains constant so that heat
will travel from the warmer parts to the cooler parts, intermixing,
to such that if the parts are constant they shall ultimately reach
the same temperature. This is the spontaneous tendancy towards the
highest degree of randomness; or striving towards maximum
"entropy". The inclination is that the heat generated through friction
may have that heat even increased temporarily but not continually. It
will cool because of frictional resistance.
An open system is influenced to such a magnitude that it's tendancy
to entropy is halted and Huxley's definition of continual increase of
order, of organization, of size, of complexity is realized. The
tendancy of sustaining this maxim indefinately is the most unlikely of
prospects. Entropy can be made to decrease in an open system as in the
growth of a child, the developement of a crystal, the construction of a
building, and the manufacture of an engine. As soon as the
developemental limitation is reached and it begins to perform it's
organizational function entropy begins to effect decay. Huxley insists:
"The whole of reality is evolution." The second law of thermodynamics
insists that left to itself entropy, decay is the effect. The
illustrations above are all, still, subject to the second law even
though they are not performing any functions. All but the child could
be protected from the effects for as long as the influence of
protection is rendered. The best scenario that can be reached is an
isolated suspenion of entropy; one is hardpressed to sustain any
continual, one hundred present suppression of the tendancy to decay.
The belief that the whole of reality is evolution and evolution is a
"directional and essentially irreversible process"01 is not realized by
the preponderances of observations. If the earth is an open system
whose primary tendancy is subject to the second law more than any
evolution precepts it's relevance is established. The laws of
thermodynamics apply to all systems; only to a closed system more than
an open. Influence becomes the greatest of factors in that a closed
system can be open and visavis. {continued ENTROPY-2.txt}