CWDOD-UPLOC-CSMS LIKE A GR8 BOOK-ULTIMATE ENTROPY OF BIG RIP

/////////////////..........The First Three Minutes, the physicist Steven Weinberg wrote: "The more the universe appears comprehensible, the more it also appears pointless.



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///////////////.........The second law states, in effect, that the universe is dying, descending inexorably into chaos as its reserves of useful energy are squandered. Russell reflected on the "vast death of the solar system" that will follow when the sun burns out in several billion years' time.



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///////////////Russell's position seems to be that if the universe is doomed, then physical existence is ultimately pointless; even human life and endeavour is futile


////////////////.........There is good astronomical evidence that the universe began in a state of almost total blandness. The richness and diversity of physical systems we observe today have emerged through a long and complicated series of self-organising and self-complexifying processes.


////////////BLANDENESS TO COMPLEXITY TO BLANDNESS


//////////////...........Individual human lives and cultures are subject to the same strictures of the second law of thermodynamics, and are finite as a result. Yet human beings and society have all sorts of goals and purposes.



/////////////GOULDIC TRIAL AND ERROR, TRIAL AND SUCCESS
........position similar to Weinberg's. Stephen Jay Gould liked to attack the Victorian notion of evolutionary progress. He stresses that nature is blind, and so cannot look ahead to anticipate solutions to evolutionary problems. Darwinism is based on purely random accidental changes; some good, some bad. Gould says evolution is not going anywhere, it is just exploring the vast space of biological possibilities. He concludes that if evolution is blind, the universe as a whole must be pointless.



//////////////////..........The evidence for the directionlessness of biological evolution is scientifically less compelling than is the case for the second law of thermodynamics. Taking the biosphere as a whole, its complexity has clearly risen since life on Earth was restricted to a few microbes.



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