After discussing the third law of thermodynamics and its relation to human life, consumption, and work, it should be clear why we go through the formidable task of bringing new life into this world. Those who have had the experience can probably comment on the huge energy drain involved – I already feel it in the lead-up to my first attempt. But as fusion is necessary to perpetuate the sun’s life, so it is with ours. Reproduction (the Fusion Principle) It is interesting how human fusion corresponds to hydrogen fusion within the sun. The hydrogen atom contains a proton and an electron, an inner core and an outward projection. Similarly…
Recently we have been looking at human behaviors and their relation to the third law of thermodynamics. The third law explains why we consume, sleep, work, and reproduce, which account for close to all of the behavior we engage in throughout life. We can see how nature mandates these behaviors by looking at the consequences of not engaging in them. Life is a precious and spectacularly improbable gift, and if we violate the laws of nature, the creator of life, we justly relinquish that gift. Specifically, we know that if we stop breathing we will die after a few minutes. If we stop taking in fluids we will die in a few…
I spend most of my time eating, sleeping and working. Intuitively I know there is more to life than this, but this is the current level of my consciousness – thoroughly blue belt. But it is fun, this cycle of life that achieves the dissipation of the sun’s energy but also pushes us forward into new and interesting realms and experiences. Somewhat synchronystically, the same week I chose to write a discourse on our dissipation through work, I participated in an enormously dissipative event – the Tokyo Eco Slow Marathon in Chiba, an hour outside of Tokyo. My good mate A-town and I jogged, walked and flowed a full marathon…
The current topic of discussion is the physical laws of nature and how they dictate our behaviors in the world. Specifically we are looking at the third law of thermodynamics, which we have shown explains the existence of life as we know it. I am attempting to extend from this physical law to a moral law supported in nature, in order to remove the ambiguity that surrounds most moral dogma. Last week we started to look at what behaviors are in harmony with the third law, namely consumption and rest – two of the qualities that comprise the Feminine principle in our nature. Now let’s look at the other half.…
Laws of nature govern our physical reality. They vary in how readily apparent their existence and effect are, but they do exist and are in effect at all times. Gravity is probably the most obvious. It is also the best at making the point that we should live in accordance with the laws of nature in order to maximize our experience here. You better know there’s a trampoline below or be wearing one of those flying suits if you plan on walking off any cliffs. It is clear that our physical movements are bound by the laws of nature, but what about our behavior? Do the physical laws also have…
“Entropy and the Inevitability of Life” by Iridium Alchemist There are many elegant ways to state or (often mis)interpret the infamous third law of thermodynamics. Its most precise and current formulation states that as the temperature of a system tends to absolute zero the entropy of a perfect crystal also approaches zero. This statement has broad and far reaching implications that are not immediately obvious. Arthur Eddington poetically referred to the third law of thermodynamics as the arrow of time. According to him time apparently moves in the direction of increasing disorder. As far as experiment has borne out this is a very good approximation of the universe in which…
