On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> > How does order arise out of chaos (which is another word for random)? Chaos is deterministic not random. A better question might be how does complexity arise out of simplicity? If entropy must always increase with time then at the start of time, the Big Bang, there must have been little entropy compared with now. In the early stages the more entropy there is the more complex things are, that is to say more information would be needed to describe it, but when entropy gets high enough it actually takes less information to describe, although the present universe is nowhere near that point yet. Maximum information is about midway between maximum and minimum entropy. For example, the smoke from a cigarette in a room with no air currents starts out as a simple smooth laminar flow easy to describe, but then turbulence kicks in and very complex patterns form that would take a lot of information to duplicate, but after that it diffuses into a uniform featureless fog that would take much less information to specify. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
