THERMODYNAMICS

The ENTROPY of the universe is INCREASING.

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All change arises from an underlying collapse into chaos.

The deep structure of change is decay;

What decays is not the quantity of energy, but the QUALITY of energy.

Energy's quality, but not its quantity, decays as it spreads into chaos.

High quality, useful energy, is localised energy.

Low quality, wasted energy, is chaotically diffuse energy.

Things get done when energy is localised.

But energy loses its potency to motivate change when it becomes dispersed.

-Peter Atkins: The Creation

(jacked from a chem handout, weird CAPSLOCKs and Britishy English and all. more thoughts later....maybe.)