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Time goes forward because energy itself is always moving from an available to an unavailable state. Our consciousness is continually recording the entropy change in the world around us. We watch our friends get old and die. We sit next to a fire and watch it's red-hot embers turn slowly into cold white ashes. We experience the world always changing around us, and that experience is the unfolding of the second law. It is the irreversible process of dissipation of energy in the world. What does it mean to say, 'The world is running out of time'? Simply this: we experience the passage of time by the succession of one event after another. And every time an event occurs anywhere in this world energy is expended and the overall entropy is increased. To say the world is running out of time then, to say the world is running out of usable energy. In the words of Sir Arthur Eddington, 'Entropy is time's arrow'.


Jeremy Rifkin


#change

Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups falling apart. Things changing before you get to know them. Death on the installment plan – or decay by jumps. Instantaneous birth. Something out of nothing. Reality replacing science fiction so fast that you can't tell which is which. Constant sense of deja-vu - 'I was here before, but when, how?' Even the possibility that there's no real continuity between events, just inexplicable gaps. And of course every gap – every crack – means a new perching place for horror.


Fritz Leiber


#entropy #horror #change

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.


Yevgeny Zamyatin


#bitter #entropy #heretics #human #human thought

Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine.


Susane Colasanti


#imagination

Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs shattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought and emotion. Art that does nothing new, that simply fills an established role, is not art. It is a product. A stale, stagnant product of a disgustingly mundane process that has been done so much it is assumed mandatory. Little different than feces. The last thing the world needs is to get shittier.


Jonathan Culver


#art #artists #chaos #entropy #feces

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.


Philip K. Dick


#rebel #rebellion #revolution #revolution

Only entropy comes easy.


Anton Chekhov


#easy #entropy #only

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.


Vaclav Havel


#basic #constant #entropy #ever #highly

I'm a human entropy producer.


Dean Kamen


#human #i #producer

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.


Walter Lang


#animal #animal life #before #entropy #exactly






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