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THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM BERGAN EVANS | |
ON NORBERT WEINER, NUCLEAR PHYSICIST | |
The second concept Wiener has to establish is that of entropy. | |
Probability is a mathematical concept, coming from statistics. | |
Entropy comes from physics. It is the assertion -- established | |
logicallly and experimentally -- that the universe, by its nature, is | |
"running down," moving toward a state of inert uniformity devoid of | |
form, matter, hierarchy or differentiation. | |
That is, in any given situation, less organization, more chaos, is | |
overwhelmingly more probable than tighter organization or more order. | |
The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is | |
expressed in the second law of thermodynamics -- perhaps the most | |
pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought. | |
It applies, however, to a closed system, to something that is an | |
isolated whole, not just a part. Within such systems there may be | |
parts, which draw their energy from the whole, that are moving, at | |
least temporarily, in the opposite direction; in them order is | |
increasing and chaos is diminishing. | |
The whirlpools that swirl in a direction opposed to the main | |
current are called "enclaves." And one of them is life, especially | |
human life, which in a universe moving inexorably towards chaos moves | |
toward increased order. | |
PERSONAL | |
PLANETARY PI, which I discovered, | |
is 61. It's a Time-Energy relationship | |
existing between sun and inner planets If the telephone | |
and I use it in arriving at many facts rings today... | |
unknown to science. For example, Water it! | |
multiply nude earth's circumference -- Rev. Thomas, Gnostic | |
24 902.206 56 by 61 and you get the N.Y.C. Cabal | |
distance of moon's orbit around the | |
earth. This is slightly less than | |
actual distance because we have not | |
yet considered earth's atmosphere. So | |
be it. Christopher Garth, Evanston. | |
"I should have been a plumber." | |
-- Albert Einstein | |