The paradox that immediately bothers everyone who learns about the second law is this: If systems tend to become more disordered, why, then, do we see so much order around us?... It seems to conflict with our "creation myth": In the beginning, there was a big bang.... no one is saying that the second law of thermodynamics is wrong, just that there is a contrapuntal process organizing things at a higher level.


The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1995)

J. Doyne Farmer Quotes

The paradox that immediately bothers everyone who learns about the second law is this: If systems tend to become more disordered, why, then, do we...

The paradox that immediately bothers everyone who learns about the second law is this: If systems tend to become more disordered, why, then, do we...

The paradox that immediately bothers everyone who learns about the second law is this: If systems tend to become more disordered, why, then, do we...

The paradox that immediately bothers everyone who learns about the second law is this: If systems tend to become more disordered, why, then, do we...