entropy entropy

Oil, pooja powder, canvas 1.5/1.2m

Entropy: take an organised state and it will randomise itself. To illustrate take 1000 brown and 1000 white grains of rice and place them in two piles on a tray. Agitate the tray and the two piles will begin to merge and eventually disperse into a more or less random and even state of distribution. Probability suggests that if the agitation persists they will not re organise into two separate groups in any given time. Thus, for example, organised states of heat, that is to say in our current condition of energy/matter, heat and non-heat will disperse into non-heat in space-time. However if one removes time as a limit then probability would surely suggest that reorganisation is inevitable at some stage. Might it not then be the case that the current universe is just such a reorganisation? In which case this removes the Big Bang as a necessary model, given that all current equational illustrations of the universe work in both directions? The current state of the universe allows for differentiation of matter and energy before and after states of entropic soup and this has happened and will happen an infinite number of times. Just a thought. Probably flawed.

Regardless, it is the case that this, this Jon-ness, is how the universe feels when it’s me. And the same goes for the you-ness.

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