Facilitating A Next Renaissance

Paradox of scarcity and power

Question: The cosmos, in my experience is being re(!)strained from producing abundance by the same laws that makes it create abundance: the twin pair of energy (conservation) / entropy (creation)

Howard: "I've argued for years something you implied: that entropy is a very, very wrong-headed concept. These have been conversations with friends in the international physics community. A cosmos that continually climbs upward and that uses destruction as its stairs does far more creating than destroying. It is the opposite of a dissipative structure. It does not simply let things melt into disorder. It does the opposite. For 13.7 billion years it's been turning chaos into order. ... and into innovations.

Thermodynamics is a field of physics based on the problems of operating a steam engine. I'm not kidding. Unfortunately, steam-engine metaphors do not reflect the realities of this amazingly inventive--and destructive--universe."

posted by Jan @ 4/03/2006