Poll: Entropy: The End?

[gragimor]

Read Asimov's short story "The last question": http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

Beautiful story about humanity and entropy.

Spoiler

If you read it: Google = _ AC???

Pure brilliance

 

[Captain Blackout]

Entropy is a fancy way of saying "The universe prefers chaos", as in naturally, if you throw a deck of cards in the air, entropy dictates that chances are they won't land stacked and ordered by suit.

Entropy is actually my main argument why Evolutionism is just as laughable as Christianity.

You appear to have a limited understanding of entropy. Nothing about entropy precludes evolution. I've gotten this argument from creationists misusing the second law of thermodynamics:
The total entropy of any isolated thermodynamic system tends to increase over time, approaching a maximum value.
Sounds great. How could live arise and organize to the level it has when entropy demands that such organization is impossible.
1) Total entropy means parts of a system can decrease in entropy as long as some other part increases by a greater value.
2) Earth isn't an isolated thermodynamic system, not even remotely. It's part of the solar system. If you calculate the entire decrease in entropy for all life processes on earth they don't come even close to the increase in entropy from the processes of earth receiving energy from the sun.

 

[Lukeje]

I was also unaware that there was evidence to suggest that if everypoint of a persons movement through what is conceived as 'time' it would form a forth concievably 'spacial' dimension. The notion that a 'temporal dimension' as you call it could be conceived as a spacial dimension confuses me.

The entirety of Relativity is founded on the concept that time is a dimension extremely similar to space. If that concept is wrong, then so is Relativity.
Relativity has been tested repeatedly and found to be accurate.

I can accept that, have you got any links?

Here's my special [http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/courses/2008/part-b/b72c72-relativity/b72a-special-relativity-and-electromagnetism/material] and general [http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/courses/2008/part-c/c72b-general-relativity-i/material] relativity notes.

Wait; you're at Oxford? [/off-topic]

 

[savandicus]

Assuming humanity is still around at that point in time then we should theoretically have created technology able to be 100% efficent, creating a closed environment where the degenerative effects of entropy will have no effect. Bare in mind that the amount of energy in the universe remains constant so to survive in a post star universe we'd just need a way or getting that energy to survive for all eternity.

However humanity will not be around then as we will all be dead before 9001.

 

[Captain Blackout]

Sometime after the heat death of the universe the "Big Rip" will happen. All space is expanding. Eventually it will expand to the point that light will not be able to traverse the space between subatomic particles. I'm sure I'm way over-simplifying. However, I did not make the term "Big Rip" up. Check it out on wikipedia. Then feel your head explode.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

Absolutes are an imaginary concept.

Is that statement always true? Absolutely so?

Absolutely not. (Well played)

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

And my mom said "You can't learn anything on the Internet!"