SPIRITUAL: ENTROPY AND ENERGY OF THE UNIVERSE

Disorder is eminent. Forget all social issues yielding anarchy. Forget all corrupt political systems tearing up the humanity it was meant to serve. Leave behind all personal anxiousness and spiritual chaos for a moment. Forget the subjective world as you know it. The fact is that the nature of physical substance wants you to fall apart into the most minute pieces of your being. You walk around all day, busy yourself with your apparent obligations, perhaps not ignorant of, but most likely unconscious of the warmth that seems to emanate from you body every second. Every beat of your heart is majoritively a waste. Every breath from your lungs steals from you potential life; everlasting life.
It is a fact that every machine in the universe, save one, is flawed. Every function produces waste, that was once potential work. Entropy is disorder. Our universe wants more than anything, a paradox in itself, uniform chaos. It can't be helped that Energy goes from high to low, hot to cold, or concentration to dispersion, depending upon its form. One may think of it this way. If you have a long thin cookie sheet and you pour water on it what happens to the water? Does it pile up on itself or does it naturally spread out attempting to cover the whole sheet with a thin uniform layer. Even if in the middle of a complex machine does water not do this naturally? In this way one can think about the invisible qualities of energy.

On the assumption that the total amount of energy and mass in the universe is a constant, Rudolf Clausius announced the immortal equation:

Entropy of the Universe > 0

What can such a small thing mean? What matter is it to us if energy goes from high to low? Essentially this question tells us that every interaction, every motion or work done releases energy as waste. While a machine may work progressively, overall more energy is lost to waste and is gained in whatever was moved or formed. This cannot be helped. A theoretical yet realistic question is this: What happens when all energy has been wasted in action or work?

Entropy of the Universe = 0

The cosmos stops. All is uniform energy. There is no possible way for work to take place.

Fortunately this possibility is so far in the future that the earth will have long been gone. Yes, I know you're shaking your head. Why the heck am I reading this then if this hoopla is only some fantastical theory of the future destined to be beyond the scope of human knowledge?

Well my friend, as you read this post, look at your hands. They may be young and strong now, but someday they will grow old. They will deteriorate and die. Don't blame me. Blame entropy. It is the inevitable limitation on mans physical immortality. If we could figure out how to create the perfect engine (think generically of that which takes energy and produces some positive effect, not like a battery powered engine) we could live forever. But that is impossible. It seems as if some power has put such possibilities out of reach.

This is all peachy keen. We know we are mortal. But what is even more interesting is this. If the universe wants to reach uniform disorder so badly, why wasn't it always in such a state? Accordingly, it seems as if our presence in the universe is anything but natural. Some force must have gone against the guiding laws to put the cosmos in such a state that a world might form, where organic creatures might form, that might ponder the questions of natural philosophy on blogger.com. Curious.

Feel aroused? How about frustrated? Want to fight entropy?

Good! Have a baby!

How peculiar is it that creation is the antithesis of disorder. While in the end, entropy will win out, temporarily you can kick the universal laws in the loins by producing little producers of your own. I can hear the resounding chant in the maternity wards across the world, fighting the battle against disorder, "Oh, no we won't go, Oh no we won't go to disorder!"