It is true that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet. These lines may have their roots in different human cultures, different times, different cultural environments, or different religious traditions.

If they meet; if they are at least so much related to each other that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that new and interesting developments may follow.

Werner Heisenberg

3.09.2011

TAO 21- Tao = Thermodynamics

The greatest virtue you can have
comes from following only the Tao
(Law of Thermodynamics);
which takes a form that is intangible and evasive.

Even though the
Tao (Law of Thermodynamic) is intangible and evasive,
we are able to know it exists. 
Intangible and evasive, yet it has a manifestation.
Secluded and dark, yet there is a vitality within it.
Its vitality is very genuine.
Within it we can find order.

Since the beginning of time, the
Tao (Law of Thermodynamics) has always existed.
It is beyond existing and not existing.
How do I know where creation comes from?
I look inside myself and see it.

Lao Tsu refers to the Tao.  I refer to the Law of Thermodynamics -- Same thing.
 You can’t see, touch, taste or feel energy dissipation, yet we know intuitively it exists.

It explains our deepest questions of Why? relating to Life and the Universe.  There is purpose in understanding, at the depth of our being, that energy must dissipate.

Steven Hawkings elegantly argues that we may live in one of an infinity of parallel universes--  Doesn’t matter; they all live by the Law.




2 comments:

  1. Yes, but in (perhaps half) some of those parallel universes, entropy (time?) may run the other way - see if you can wrap your mind around that!

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  2. Steven Hawkings also refers to the concept of negative(imaginary) time. Not time running in reverse, but time running at a right angle to the forward time line we understand. Very much like the square root of negative 1. That and more than four dimensions? Whew.

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