Your Math and Physics Questions Answered
Physicist: The increase of entropy is just how a scientist talks about the fact that the universe tends to do the most likely thing.
For example, if you throw a bucket of dice you’ll find that about a sixth of them will be 1, about a sixth will be 2, and so on.
This has the most ways of happening, so it’s the most likely outcome, and for the same reason it’s the outcome with the highest entropy.
High entropy.
Arrangements of lots of dice tend, over time, to end up like this.
In contrast, you wouldn’t expect all of the dice to be 4 at the same time, or otherwise assume one particular pattern.
That would be a very unlikely and .
Audrey Hepburn is one of the lower entropy states you'll find.
Or rather, will never find, because it's so unlikely.
You have to sit back and squint a little to see it.
“Entropy” is just a mathematical tool for extending the idea down to atomic interactions, where we don’t have a nice idea like “dice” to work with.
One of the things that increasing entropy does is to spread out heat as much as possible.
If you have a hot object next to a cold object, then the heat will spread so that the cooler object heats up, and the hotter object cools down, until the two are at the same temperature.
The idea (the math) behind that is the same as the idea behind mixing fluids or sands together.
There are more ways for things to be mixed than sorted.
The same thing happens on a much larger scale.
The Sun, and every other star, is radiating heat into the universe.
But they can’t do it forever.
Eventually the heat will have spread out so much that there won’t be warmer objects and cooler objects.
Everything will be the same temperature.
The same, very cold, temperature.
The vast majority of the universe is already screaming cold, so the heat death of the universe is just about burning what fuel there is and mixing the heat so created into the ever-expansive, cold, and unyielding cosmos.
Both the burning of fuel (mostly through fusion in stars) and the distribution of heat are processes which increase entropy.
The cold and unyielding cosmos. What's the stupid point of anything?
Once everything is the same temperature, the universe attains a “steady state”.
With no energy differences, there’s no reason for anything to change what it’s doing (all forces can be expressed as an energy imbalance or ““).
Heat death is the point at which the universe has finally settled down completely (or almost completely), and nothing interesting ever happens again.
Which is depressing, but it is a fantastically long time away.
There are a hell of a lot of
that’ll probably happen first.
The eminent philosophers
have a more up beat take on the heat death of the universe:
“Heat is work, and work’s a curse,
and all the heat in the universe,
is gonna cool down.
‘Cause it can’t increase,
then there’ll be no more work, and there’ll be perfect peace.
That’s entropy, man.”
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Quotes #12:
Like the Shark, It Never Stops: Famous Quotes on Change
All Conditions are Temporary
Change is a shark in the ocean. Change never stops,
never sleeps: it must always keep moving. The good news
is if you hate the way things are, they will change. The
bad news is if you love the way things are, they are
certain to change as well. The only thing inevitable
about life is change, not death. Change is here to stay!
The Final Curtain?
death is only the final change:
moving again from a state of physical being into a state
of non-physical being. While we are yet in life, we are
constantly in a state of change. We grow, then we age.
Our cells dies off and replace themselves. We live, we
learn. We work ourselves from darkness to light, from
negative to positive, from
to dharma. We do it again.
Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Change:
&A nothing perishes.&
(&Metamorphoses&)
&Everything changes, nothing remains without
Gautama Buddha
&Nothing endures but change. There is nothing
permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays
Heraclitus
&The lapse of ages changes all things -- time,
language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of
the sky, and every thing 'about, around, and underneath'
man, except the nature of man himself.&
George Gordon, Lord Byron
&Is any man afraid of change?
Why what can take place without change? What then is more
pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?&
Marcus Aurelius
(&Meditations&)
&The art of progress is to preserve order amid
A. N. Whitehead
&All things must change to something new, to
something different.&
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
&The more things change, the more they remain the
same. (Plus ?a change, plus c'est la même chose.)&
Alphonse Karr
(&Les Guêpes&)
&Work and struggle and never accept an evil that
you can change.&
Andre Gide
&One person with a belief is equal to a force of
ninety-nine with only interests.&
John Stuart Mill
&To every thing there is a season, and a time to
every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born,
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is
A time to kill, a time to break down,
A time to weep, a time to mourn, and
A time to get, a time to keep, and a
A time to rend, a time to keep
A time to love, a time of war, and a
time of peace.
God hath made every thing beautiful in his time:
......also he hath set the world in their heart,
I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever:
nothing can be put to it,
nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men
should fear before him.
That wh and that which is to be hath
already been…&
Bible: Ecclesiastes
(3:1-4,6-8,14-15)
&The atom, being for all practical purposes the
stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly
changing vortex of reactions.&
&Turbulence is life force: it is opportunity.
Let's love turbulence & use it for change.&
Ramsay Clark
&To act and act wisely when the time for action
comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for
repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling
tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his
back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he
may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in
periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and
depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of
the tides when he should be their Master.&
Helena Petrova Blavatsky
&To change and to change for the better are two
different things.&
German Proverb
&Change is scientific, change is undeniable,
whereas progress is a matter of opinion and
controversy.&
Bertrand Russell
&I cannot say whether things will get better if
what I can say is they must change if they are
to get better.&
G. C. Lichtenberg
&Change is not made without inconvenience, even
from worse to better.&
Richard Hooker
&This moment - the one you're experiencing right
now - is the culmination of all the moments you have
experienced in the past. This moment is as it is because
the entire universe is as it is.&
Deepak Chopra
(&Seven Spiritual Laws of Success&)
&Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract
world can movement or change occur without that abrasive
friction of conflict.&
Saul Alinsky
&For good and evil, man is a free creative
spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a
world in continuous creation and therefore continuous
change and insecurity.&
Joyce Cary
&Such is the state of life: none are happy but by
the anticipation of change: chan
when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
let me see something
tomorrow which I never saw before.&
Samuel Johnson
&Only man is not content to leave things as they
are but must always be changing them, and when he has
done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.&
Elspeth Huxley
&The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace
of change in human life.&
Jawaharal Nehru
&I'm starting with the man in the mirror, I'm
asking him to change his ways.
No message could have been any clearer. If you want to
change, you gotta take the time. You gotta make the
change. Change. Change. Change.&
Michael Jackson
(&The Man in the Mirror&)
&We must become the change we want to see.&
Mohandas K. Gandhi
&Only I can change my life. No one can do it for
Carol Burnett
&Though I might travel afar, I will meet only
what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see
only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their
attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts
within us all. Turn the gaze inward.
......Correct yourself
and your world will change.&
Kirsten Zambucka
&To put the world in order, we must put the
nation in order. To put the nation in order, we must put
the family in order. To put the family in order, we must
nurture our personal life. To cultivate our personal
life, we must first set our hearts right.&
&The place to improve the world is first in one's
own heart and head and hands.&
Robert M. Pirsig
&I realized the problem was me and nobody could
change me except myself.&
John Petworth
&I wanted to change the world. But I have found
that the only thing one can be sure of changing is
Aldous Huxley
&If one desires a change, one must be that change
before it can take place.&
Gita Bellin
&Fortune does not change men, it unmasks
Suzanne Necker
&The people and circumstances around me do not MAKE
me what I am, they REVEAL
who I am.&
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
&We did not cha we just
became more clearly ourselves.&
(&Where Have All the Tigers Gone?&)
&You will be more disappointed by the things that
you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.&
Mark Twain
&Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
committed people can change the world: indeed it's the
only thing that ever has!&
Margaret Meade
&All of nature is change.&
&The task ahead of us is never as great as the
power behind us.&
Ralph Waldo Emerson
&You venture into the unknown land because that
is where your heart will take you. In the end, it is not
what you want to do, it is something you have to
Laura Ingalls Wilder
&Every great advance in science has issued from a
new audacity of imagination.&
John Dewey
&No army can withstand the strength of an idea
whose time has come.&
Victor Hugo
&If an idea is bad, nothing can keep it from
failing. It an idea is good, nothing can stop it from
succeeding.&
Ellen Mogensen
&Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth,
the egg of the phoenix.&
Christina Baldwin
&If you can dream it, you can do it.&
Walt Disney
&Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.&
Langston Hughes
&Y and you say 'Why?' But I dream
th and I say 'Why not?'&
George Bernard Shaw
&Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if
you'll die today.&
James Dean
&Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.&
Jonathan Swift
&Vision without action is a daydream. Action
without vision is a nightmare. Glorious vision combined
with decisive action can change the world.&
Japanese Proverb
&In a progressive country,
change is inevitable.&
Benjamin Disraeli
&Nothing changes more cons
for the past that influences our lives does not consist
of what happened, but of what men believe happened.&
Gerald W. Johnston
&Of all our human resources, the most precious is
the desire to improve.&
&I've continued to recognize the power
individuals have to change virtually anything and
everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned
that the resources we need to turn our dreams into
reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we
decide to wake up and claim our birthright.&
Anthony Robbins
&Life is made of millions of moments, but we live
only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to
change this moment, we begin to change our lives.&
Trinidad Hunt
&At first, dreams seem impossible, then
improbable, and eventually inevitable.&
Christopher Reeve
&Change and growth take place when a person has
risked himself and dares to become involved with
experimenting with his own life.&
Herbert A. Otto
&Change starts when someone sees the next
William Drayton
&Some change their ways when they see the light,
others when they feel the heat.&
Caroline Schoeder
&The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak
results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of
Napoleon Hill
&The first step toward change is awareness. The
second step is acceptance. The third step is
Nathaniel Branden
&It's not that some people have willpower and
some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and
others are not.&
James Gordon MD
&All difficult things have their origin in that
which is easy, and great things in that which is
&History has demonstrated that the most notable
winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles
before they triumphed. They won because they refused to
become discouraged by their defeats.
Bertie C. Forbes
&Some men give up their designs when they have
almost reached the goal. While others, on the contrary,
obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more
vigorous efforts than ever before.&
&It is difficult to say what is impossible, for
the dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today, and the
realities of tomorrow.&
&You succeed when you find something to hold on
to, to motivate and inspire you.&
Tony Dorsett
&If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't
grow, we aren't really living.&
Gail Sheehy
&Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.
Only by being open to change will you have a true
opportunity to get the most from your talent.&
Nolan Ryan
&Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the
soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success
achieved.&
Helen Keller
&The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor
man perfected without trials.&
Chinese Proverb
&The search for static security - in the law and
elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only
be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas
that have outlived their usefulness to current
William O. Douglas
&Good wood doesn't grow with ease: the stronger
the wind, the stronger the trees.&
Williard Marriott
&A pessimist sees the difficulty in every
an optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty.&
Sir Winston Churchill
&A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his
opportunities and an optimist is one who makes
opportunities of his difficulties.&
Harry S. Truman
&It's not whether
whether you get back up.&
Vince Lombardi
&What counts is not necessarily the size of the
dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the
Dwight D. Eisenhower
&The foolish man seeks happi
the wise grows it under his feet.&
James Oppenheim
&Far better it is to dare mighty things though
checkered with failure, than to rank with those poor
souls, who neither enjoy or suffer much, because they
live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor
&Failure should be our teacher, not our
undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a
temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we
can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and
being nothing.&
Denis Waitley
&The only man who never makes a mistake is the
one who never does anything.&
Theodore Roosevelt
&There is only one success - to spend your life
in your own way.&
Christopher Morley
When change is forced upon you by illness, it is
&…simply a message from your body to you that
says, 'Wait a minute: something is wrong. You are not
listenin you are ignoring something
that is very important to you'…& So listen to
what your body is saying, it will save your life (-EM).
Barbara Brennan
(&Hands of Light&)
&I know that there is a reason for everything.
Perhaps at the moment that an event occurs we have
neither the insight or the foresight to comprehend the
reason, but with time and patience it will come to
Brian Weiss MD
(&Many Lives, Many Masters&)
plausible explanation for the seeming inequities of our
only reincarnation gives us hope that we
do have certain controls over an otherwise prearranged
destiny: our behavior, our attitudes, our way of
life… and afterlife. Nothing stirs up more
questions, nothing answers more questions than the system
of rebirth cycles in human existence. Those who will
accept the system as natural and all pervasive will find
their lives falling into place differently than before.
Everything suddenly makes sense, everything moves as it
ought to - even if some experiences are not pleasant -
and there is frustration mixed in with success and
Dr. Hans Holzer
(&Life Beyond Life&)
&Pre-existence, once admitted as it regards the
past, logically implies a succession of future existences
for all souls that have not yet attained the goal, and
that have imperfections and defilements from which to be
cleansed. In order to enter the 'circle of happiness' and
leave the 'circle of wanderings', one must be pure.&
Andre Pezzani
(&The Plurality of Soul's Existence&)
&If lifetime to lifetime is like yesterday to
today, the state of consciousness at the time of death
has much to do with the circumstances of rebirth into a
new life. The level of awareness that can be developed in
between lives plays a factor as well, for a thread of
consciousness runs continuously through all
existence.&
Jeanne Avery
(&A Soul's Journey&)
&Over events, we may have some control, but over
the law of life's progress none.&
John W. Draper
&Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it
changes life, but that it changes you.&
James Dillet Freeman
&When you make a mistake, don't look back at it
long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and
then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The
past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your
Hugh White
&It's only the view from where you sit that makes
you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why
don't you change your seat?&
&Better to do something imperfectly than to do
nothing flawlessly.&
Robert Schuller
&Action may not al but there
is no happiness without action.&
Benjamin Disraeli
&It's the constant and determined effort that
breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all
obstacles.&
Claude M. Bristol
&We have nothing to fear but fear itself.&
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
&You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do
things you never thought you could do. There are no
limitations in what you can do except the limitations of
your own mind.&
Darwin P. Kingsley
&Change has a considerable psychological impact
on the human mind. To the fearful, it is threatening
because it means that things may get worse. To the
hopeful, it is encouraging because things may get better.
To the confident, it is inspiring because the challenge
exists to make things better.&
King Whitney, Jr.
&The difference between a successful person and
others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.&
Vincent T. Lombardi
&You will suddenly realize that the reason you
never changed before was because you didn't want
Robert H. Schuller
&Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your
beliefs pave your way to success or block you.&
Marsha Sinetar
(&Do What You Love and the Money Will Follow&)
&That's the risk you take if you change: that
people you've been involved with won't like the new you.
But other people who do will come along.&
Lisa Alther
&Most games are lost, not won.&
Casey Stengel
&Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose
Karen Kaiser Clark
&Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily
cracked, while the bamboo survives by bending with the
&We cannot become what we need to be, remaining
what we are.&
Max Depree
&Change that is slowed first becomes a habit,
next a rut, lastly a grave. So you have to decide where
you want to live: confined in a habit, lying immobile in
a deep rut, or rotting in a grave.&
Ellen Mogensen
&A rut is a grave with no ends.&
Alan Lampkin
&Men make history, and not the other way around.
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands
still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders
seize the opportunity to change things for the
Harry S. Truman
&Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a
dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course,
there are other strategies. You can change riders. You
can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can
benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can
declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can
harness several dead horses together. But after you've
tried all these things, you're still going to have to
dismount.&
Gary Hamel
(&Leading the Revolution&)
&There are three kinds of people: those who make
things happen, those who let things happen, and those who
wonder: what the !@#$ just happened. Those who make
things happen are masters of change while the other two
are it's victims.&
Ellen Mogensen
&I can't change the direction of the wind, but I
can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.&
Jimmy Dean
&There are only two ways to live your life. One
is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
everything is.&
Albert Einstein
&Better to light a candle than to curse the
darkness.&
Chinese Proverb
&It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept
anything but the very best you will very often get
W. Somerset Maugham
&My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future
is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because
that is where life resides.&
Gene Oliver
(&Life and the Artistry of Change&)
&Seek not to change the world, but choose to
change your mind about the world.&
A Course In Miracles
&People can't live with change if there's not a
changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to
change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are
about and what you value.&
Stephen R. Covey
&In a time of drastic change it is the learners
who inherit the future. The learned usually find
themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer
Eric Hoffer
&Change does not necessarily assure progress, but
progress implacably requires change. Education is
essential to change, for education creates both new wants
and the ability to satisfy them.&
Henry S. Commager
&Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the
simple determination to be happy under all outward
circumstances.&
J. Donald Walters
&The secret of success in life is for one to be
ready for opportunity when it comes.&
Benjamin Disraeli
&Man must be prepared for every event of life,
for there is nothing that is durable.&
Menander of Athens
&It's not it's what you do
about it that makes the difference.&
William Mitchell
&Decide what you want, decide what you are
willing to do for it. Establish your priorities and go to
H. L. Hunt
&Persistent people
Edward Eggleston
&The longest journey of any person is the journey
Dag Hammerskjvold
&The true past departs not, no truth or goodness
realized by man ever dies, but all is still
here: recognized or not, lives and works through endless
Thomas Carlyle
&Education is the progressive discovery of our
ignorance&.
Will Durant
&Every adversity, failure, and heartache carries
with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater
&The best way to have what you want, is to want
what you have.&
&Faced with the choice between changing one's
mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost
everyone gets busy on the proof.&
John Kenneth Galbraith
&Change yourself, change your fortunes.&
Portuguese Proverb
&The greatest discovery of modern times is that
human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their
minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.&
William James
&Just when I think I have learned the way to
live, life changes and I am left the same. The more
things change the more I am the same. I am what I started
with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left
Hugh Prather
&Being willing to change allows you to move from
a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more
expansive place, from which you can see both sides.&
Thomas Crum
&Only within yourself exists the other reality
for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not
already its being within yourself. I can throw open to
you no picture gallery but your own soul.&
Herman Hesse (&Steppenwolf&)
&Who we are never changes. Who we think we are
Mary S. Almanac
&One positive thought, given a chance to survive
and thrive, can overpower an army of negative
thoughts.&
Robert H. Schuller
&It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one that
proves itself the most responsive to change.&
Charles Darwin
&Whatever you have achieved, there is always more
to achieve, more to explore, more to master.&
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