Comment on Explosions in the Sky
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
An explosion is pure entropy. It’s high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner
We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order
The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy
birdbrain5381@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
INSUFFICIENT DATA
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 weeks ago
If only this was a response AI could give. I think it would solve a lot of the problems
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
(apparent deadlink BTW). In answer to the question: slow and steady Hawking radiation from all the black holes, perhaps?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
But are we actually creating order? To maintain life’s order, we are creating much more disorder somewhere else.
Life is but an entropy maximization machine.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
On the overall scale of the universe? No, not even remotely close. On the local scale of the Earth, generally yes.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Well, as much as possible anyway. When considering mass alone, life is quite efficient.
According to Wolfram Alpha:
The sun produces 3.8 * 10^28^ watts.
A single human produces 104 watts (calculated through the average caloric intake assuming that intake ≈ energy consumption) through heat radiation.
Therefore:
1 kg of human converts 1.5 watt into heat.
1 kg of the sun converts 0.0002 watt into (heat) radiation.
And while I have nearly no understanding how entropy is calculated, from those values alone it seems like humans produce more entropy per kg than the sun. I’m pretty sure entropy is somewhat related to energy production though.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yes, if you consider just a human-mass equivalent portion of the Sun then it’s not doing much, but that’s not really a useful comparison. We’re talking about total net entropy here, not entropy per unit mass.
But yes, if it makes you feel any better, I’ll concede that if you had octillions of people our total metabolic energy output would, in fact, be significantly higher than that of the Sun.
jimitsoni18@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A single human may look organized, but collectively we are chaos
myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
…just ripples in the carbon cycle, momentary standing waves until we lose coherence…
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Perhaps another way to think of it is that we’re a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Or perhaps more eloquently: we’re the standing part of a harmonic fart
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand this, but it sounds cool.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
We’re the fixed red dot in the superposition of the green and blue waves interfering with one other