No, that's just too easy a target.
i agree, as to be ignorant is just too easy; look at the posts of just rants as few give themselves credit for being alive.
No, that's just too easy a target.
I know the painted wagon is usually reserved for a different poster's threads, but is there any chance of it being pressed into service over here?

We don't need a painted wagon for this, Mashuna: what we are going to do is be in several places at once: we can do this because we don't exist in any meaningful sense: we are some kind of process and we are all that process simultaneously: so we can be in several threads at the same time without any problem. That is the nature of "life itself": its position is indeterminate
At least I think that is how it works.
Can you organise a cue so we can be sure that we are all in many places at once? I think some creepy music is what is needed
Fire, how the heck does it work? Must violate the second law, warming me up like that.Quite. Conversely, if you're cold, wearing a thick coat and sitting by a fire, open the coat up to warm yourself faster.
Stars die too. They burn through the nuclear reactions that generate their energy and eventually die. Ever heard of a white dwarf?that is funny.
All that cold per se empty space but for some reason there are collectives of mass, in little balls making the sky look black will lil'white dots.
billlions of years and still not much equilibration going on.
That is because we understand that life takes energy from other sources within its thermodynamic system. The increase of order in life relies on processes that decrease the order in the surrounding system. Does a zebra increase or decrease the order of grass? Does a lion increase or decrease the order of zebras?If life evolves in itself provides evidence but few apply the laws to life.
Why is that?
And when someone freezes to death because he was dim enough to think that a coat would negate the laws of thermodynamics as he tried to hike five miles through an Antarctic night the energy that was in his body is conserved. It is simply spread out across a much greater area.sure..... the first requires that no energy just vanishes, it must be conserved.
So? Stars are driven by fusion. It takes a very long time for a star to burn out - billions of years, in many cases.
That is 'why'? Again, an ignorant claim!Because you're clueless. The 2nd law of thermodynamics does apply to life. That's why life gives of heat. We've been over this before. You have learned nothing.
to a certain extent.O hell yes it applies to quantum mechanics.
most everyone knows about heisenberg field and uncertainties within the field and then if you comprehended that 'the' field (space/time) is maintaining that energy (state) and that is the unit (remember the rhr?) then the detector is identifying with its combination of (state) within the field sharing the uncertainty can be focused to a point at the point of interection between nodes within its resonance. (ie.... look for the golden ratio at the intersections between the combining energy)In fact, quantum mechanics is what allowed thermodynamics to become statistical mechanics.
Under steam engine era thermodynamics, the 2nd law was merely an observed fact. It took quantum mechanics to really understand, and in fact prove, the 2nd law using statistical mechanics.
All that cold per se empty space but for some reason there are collectives of mass, in little balls making the sky look black will lil'white dots.
Stars do a fine job of increasing entropy and bringing the Universe into thermodynamic equilibrium. There are only a few things that are more efficient, and they are Deeply Scary and should be kept at least several hundred light-years away.billlions of years and still not much equilibration going on.
as it is already of evidence, the majority of 'out there' is empty space while the lil'white dots are far and in between. Nothing equlibrating out there!
Fire, how the heck does it work? Must violate the second law, warming me up like that.
Now, if life did in fact begin as a single celled critter a gazillion years back, and has procreated (the life (the fire)) for all them extinctions and as of now, is still rockin this taco stand, does life abuse entropy?
That is 'why'? Again, an ignorant claim!
we maintain entropy, because we give off heat..............?
doooood, you just are one hilarious individual.
No, as has already been explained to you. "Life" is not an isolated system: it has to have an external energy source.
If you don't feed it, life will die.
Dead wrong. Gravity pulled mass (mostly hydrogen and helium) together to create all those "little white dots", and the thing that makes them white is that an atom of helium weighs a little less than the 4 protons were squished together to make it. That missing mass gets turned into lots of kinetic energy and photons, increasing entropy all the while.as it is already of evidence, the majority of 'out there' is empty space while the lil'white dots are far and in between. Nothing equlibrating out there!
We give off heat because our lives are sustained by exothermic chemical reactions. We sorta maintain order in our bodies by spreading more entropy around. None of this violates the Second Law.That is 'why'? Again, an ignorant claim!
we maintain entropy, because we give off heat..............?
Ridiculous. How much entropy was created by raising/transporting/consuming/digesting/excreting food? More then enough to compensate for the apparent increase in order to ourselves.we break the law just by consumption and then 'we' can by choice.
Powered by Mom's metabolism, which does not violate the second law. Fail again.How about let's talk about and embryo, consuming to grow from a single cell?
No, life just moves entropy around, and creates more entropy in the process of doing so.Now, if life did in fact begin as a single celled critter a gazillion years back, and has procreated (the life (the fire)) for all them extinctions and as of now, is still rockin this taco stand, does life abuse entropy?
that be a kind of oxymoron.The heat increases the entropy of our surroundings.
that is a twisted version i would agree on as it is the 1st law that makes that claim. The universe itself will not go cold (because there is no where for the energy to go as it is associated to everything else. now for any who like the 4pir2, then guesimate the size of the universe.The second law states that the energy of an isolated system cannot decrease.
i agreeA system that takes in and gives off energy, in one form or another, is not isolated.
A living thing is not an isolated system. If you try to make it into one it will starve to death.
Does procreation offer proof that; "life abuses entropy"?
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I vote for "people them that dont understand the law; and think they break it".but some are holding a law as if it is the gospel
Now you tell me who is ignorant? People that break the law and dont know it or them that know the law and break it anyway?
I used the word 'abuses' which is ongoing.
life; abuses entropy (ie... life, intends to live (see instinct))
no ambiguity about it
My eyes bled when I read this, but I laughed hysterically nonetheless.