Originally Posted by MadPenguin
Except that i already explained that conservation of energy is perfectly compatible with the universe we live in 4 posts up  |
Energy is indeed like this hole in the ground:
If you dig a pit, you're not just creating a hole, you're also building a mountain. The same is true when you create energy: you're also creating a state that is the opposite of it.
This is particularly easy to relate to in terms of gravity: when you raise an object you basically go against gravity and you create potential energy which is stored in the height of the object and you will have to counter this potential energy by supporting or holding it continuously (balancing the Normal force).
When you release the object, the potential energy of gravity will turn into kinetic energy and make the object move. Meaning though you had to invest to get the gravitational energy to a certain level by for example burning matter for muscle energy (matter which was also storing energy), while the total energy in the universe was always balanced against one another. The efficiency may have been a bit lower though because some of the energy would have dissipatated entropically as heat - however, this heat was still energy and it's been passed on somewhere else.
I therefore believe more in the dynamical balance of physics, that existence only exists as long as balance is met or moving to a state that's more balanced after it's moved to an inbalanced state. But there's no believe system attached to this, as this can be ratified with everything.
Name me anything from wildlife habitats to resource availability to economics to physics to populations, to musical strings or pebbles tossed in the water, to materials, to energy (solar, combustion, metabolical or otherwise), to weather and so on and so on.
It can be shown that everything is part of some cycle of energy balance, governed by action and reaction between different states of energy (including matter) and a natural entropic flow to distribute this energy such that the total energy difference between two states moves back towards 0.
Being taught about entropic and isentropic conditions in engine calculation colleges is quite illuminating in that respect if you think about it.
The beauty is that this is stimulated both passively and actively and simply down to the state of thing in a completely physical way. Wind has no intentions. It just is a consequence of two states in different spots in space. The only ones with intentions are we as living beings originating from passive actions and reactions. We lost our connection to other matter that simply is and hence we long for meaning behind life that may not be there at all. We give meaning to life, because we can. But that doesn't mean that the universe has meaning, is intelligent or has an intelligence behind it.
The universe may therefore be a reaction between the conditions in this one point and the conditions that at the time surrounded the point: energy HAD to be distributed properly and this process automatically and chaotically created all sorts of energy along the way as it transfered its energy to the next position and states changed constantly. This changing of state is far too complex and fast and violent for humans to comprehend IMO (it's already hard enough for most to comprehend why a simple flame on a lucifer match has a specific shape and movement after all) and we don't really
need to know in the end.
But we're curious beings so we want and we "have" to know to satisfy our curiosity. And if we can't have that... we're prone to speculation and imagination. That's where religion and faith comes in.
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