The Comings and Goings of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

 PSI Blog 20261102 The Comings and Goings of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

The Infinite Universe always has both.

                   Photo Credit: NASA.       

Here is an interesting question from Quora?     

   

"Does the second law of thermodynamics imply that life is a temporary rebellion against the natural direction of the universe?”

This question includes three implications:

1.     That life is temporary (correct)

2.     That it is unnatural (false)

3.     That the universe has a direction (false)

Our assumption the universe is infinite sets the stage for the Sixth Assumption of Science, complementarity (All things are subject to convergence as well divergence from other things). Humanity’s early myopism and the assumption the universe was finite has led to the overemphasis on the divergence part sanctified by the Second Law of Thermodynamics (SLT). That self-centeredness eventually was responsible for the current erroneous interpretation that the universe is expanding—despite Hubble’s denial. Like the Big Bang Theory itself, the SLT was a product of the currently popular systems philosophy, which overemphasizes the system and deemphasizes its environment.

In Infinite Universe Theory life is the kind of motion that results when the proper ingredients converge upon a particular location, tarry for a time, and eventually continue on their way. It is not a “rebellion.” It is just what happens when the environment within the Infinite Universe is suitable. It is what is left over after the destruction of the unfit. What is thought of here as a rebellion is simply the struggle that everything (microcosm) must undergo to survive for a while in the face of an active environment (macrocosm). This follows from the universal mechanism of evolution, which I call univironmental determinism (what happens to a portion of the universe depends on the infinite matter in motion within and without).

All microcosms contain submicrocosms that are continually in motion, just like everything in the Infinite Universe.[i] And like everything else, the microcosmic boundary is not perfect. It behaves as a sieve, continually losing and gaining matter and the motion of matter to and from its immediate macrocosm. We all undergo divergence, losing hair, teeth, neurons, and other body parts, with death being the eventual result. This happens despite how much we “rebel” against the process with exercise, health food, and medicine.

The “natural direction of the universe” referred to in the Quora question involves the erroneous application of the SLT implying the universe is finite and will have an ending. That “heat death of the universe” trope is logically consistent with the assumption it had a beginning—but, like the finity assumption, it is incorrect. The only way that could work would be for a finite universe to be surrounded by perfectly empty space, for which there is no evidence. The Infinite Universe does not evolve. Only the things within it do. That is why cosmogonists don’t see increasingly young cosmological objects they we look increasing distances. The “elderly galaxies” in the photos taken with the James Webb Space Telescope are exactly what I predicted based on Infinite Universe Theory.

               

 

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[i] Except for Einstein’s imaginary “photon,” which is massless and therefore has no constituents and is the only hypothetical microcosm not subject to the E=mc² equation.