Dear friends,
It seems to me, on a human scale the universe tends toward entropy, but on a macro scale the universe in fact tends towards order. This theory flies in the face of science and even directly observed experiments, but those experiments and observations are in human time scale, not the macro time scale. If the universe in all scales of time and space tend towards entropy… then a flower could not exist. Because a flower is ordered down to the molecular level. In the supposed billions of years our Universe has existed, if at all scales the universe tend towards entropy, then by now there would be nothing left that is ordered. That order exists, and is as prevalent as it is, tells us that on a larger time scale, the universe tends toward order.
A flower is order… but can be argued is a living thing, and so imposes it’s own order on the material universe. And that argument holds some water, since quantum physics shows that consciousness does effect matter, ie, reality on the smallest scale exists as a probability wave function, until it is observed, (it only has the probability of existence), observation collapsing the probability wave into reality. Which suggests a first observer. Instead look at Earth’s geologic formations. Initially they appear to be random and chaotic, but upon closer observation we see that they differentiate stone by size in gravel banks, elements in veins of ore, the Earth itself is composed of orderly strata. Order is everywhere and all around us, if the universe tended towards entropy at all scales, there would be nothing but disorder.
Our science has already established that the Universe works differently at different scales. Newtonian physics works fine at the scale we observe reality, but breaks down when we observe reality at the speed of light, and reality changes again when we observe it at it’s smallest, at the quantum level. That reality operates differently at the scale at which we observe it, human time scale, where the universe tends towards entropy, and at a macro time scale where the universe tends towards order, is no different. Reality just operates differently at a different scale of observation, just as quantum physics is counter intuitive, Newtonian physics is an interpolation and Einstein’s Relativity is intuitive. Making the basic idea similar, in at least that aspect, to these other theories.
Most scientists would argue to the head of a pin I am wrong, and perhaps I am, but I have to go with my eyes before I accept appeal to authority. Scientists protect and defend dogma like zealots until their dogma is smashed. Then they act like they never believed it in the first place. This tendency of science and scientists is why the term paradigm shift was invented. To identify the moment and trigger that changed the scientific mind. Ie, Einsteins’ Relativity was a paradigm shift in our understanding of gravity, the speed of light and their consequences. Scientists today are devoted religiously to the theory the universe tends towards entropy, and on a human scale they are correct, but on a macro scale they are wrong. Observed reality proves it… everywhere you look there is order arising from disorder.
This knowledge gives us insight into the true nature of the Universe. If indeed the Universe tends towards order, at a macro scale of time, the predictions of our scientists as to the fate of the Universe must be changed. Moreover, coupled with the ramifications of quantum physics, that our universe is not material at it’s most fundamental level, calls into question science itself. Because how can the Universe tend towards order at macro scales, and entropy at human scales… unless something is at work not predicted in our models. That in and of itself is a revelation that should make us think long and hard about our place in the universe, utterly discrediting nihilism, scientifically. If the Universe tends toward order on a macro scale, and entropy on a human scale, then reality itself must be ordered.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
