Essay:Quantifying Order
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| “ | In the beginning was perfect order, and this perfection was with God, and this perfection was God. | ” |
This is a tantalizing translation of John 1:1,[1] and it suggests that insight into the universe may be best understood by examining order, and its converse of disorder (entropy). A starting point is this: quantifying order.
There are several examples of highly ordered systems from diverse corners of physics:
- a wave function collapsed by observation
- a high concentration of mass
- a tightly wound orbit, such as Mercury's
- the transmission of light
- the transmission of electromagnetic waves
A perpetual ordered system, or a perpetual motion machine, is thought to be impossible by virtue of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
References
- ↑ See the Conservative Bible Project for an ongoing effort to bring forth the best rendition in English of the original intent of the Bible.