I'm utterly bewildered by this thread. Entropy refers to the entire universe. This is wholly compatible with steadily greater order in one little nook of the universe.
The idea that entropy is even remotely related to social life is absurd. I suppose that if you dip 1/8 tsp of water from the Pacific every 15 years, in several trillion years the Pacific will run dry -- except that for other reasons the Pacific will be long gone before it can dry up. One needs no science whatever to know that the supply of iron of iron ore is limited; the question of how limited (how soon it will be exhausted) is only in a trivial way related to physics. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
