Form: Quote Commentary

—“The laws of thermodynamics in general and entropy in particular, make the universe hostile to us. Everything tends to come apart over the long term – even our cells and their component parts, on up to planets and stars.

Whatever “coming back together” that might occur on the larger time scale of the universe is beyond any meaning to us in practical terms – other than enjoying the knowledge of it, and perhaps gleaning from it any useful bits in regards physics that we can put to work in our machinations of survival and continuation, development, and improvement of the species.

Within the short time scales that we deal with as biological agents it’s this constant “coming-apart” that forces us to defeat the red queen. To survive we must find ways to build bastions and bulwarks against this one tendency of the universe.

I would submit that it’s most accurate to say that the universe is indifferent to the fact that the way it operates is hostile to us.” — Shanaynay Tomson

(CD: edited to: remove suggestion that the universe has intent; fully expand sentences; rephrase parentheticals. tip. I try to use parentheticals to create parallel sequences between vernacular terminology and technical terminology, or to insert my ‘voice or opinion’ into the middle of an objective text. I recommend that you write however you are comfortable to get an idea out of your head and into text, but then go through it, organize it and fully expand it. -cheers)