Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Is Order a Conserved Quantity?
The Second Law of Thermodynamics implies that the universe moves from an ordered state to disorder: sometimes referred to as the “heat death of the universe" A nuclear physicist (I can't recall his name) once gave a talk about his findings on disordered nuclear states actually being a new form of order and suggested that ordered systems may not deteriorate into disorder but rather change into a different form of order. Could the second law be all wrong and "Order"actually be one of the conserved quantities in nature? That could have implications for the human spirit which seems to me to be a Chaotic "Strange Attractor" and not only an Ordered System but an ultimate "Orderer". Perhaps death is changing ones state of order.
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I guess it depends on the definition of order. I don't claim to be a physicist, and I have long ago forgotten any rules I learned, and certainly can't debate any of them, but the idea that chaos is really order in a different form seems logical. Isn't atomic structure the foundation of our physical universe? Destruction of the atom as in a bomb seems to create a moment of true chaos, which then resolves back into a new order - perhaps looking chaotic but still with a basic structure intact.
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