Zettel 202109241251 : Is Entropy God?
Sometimes scientists use the word God to describe the fundamental essence of reality. To them, God is the unifying theory that answers all questions. God is that force that never fades or changes. God is that thing that allowed everything else to be.
A few weeks ago, I wondered if entropy is God.
And today, I stumbled a across the book titled Change is the Only Constant by Ben Orlin. And I found this quote before the main text:
There was a period of silence. After a while, he said, “How did you get your ideas about God?”
“I was looking for God,” I said. “I wasn’t looking for mysticism or magic. I didn’t know whether there was a god to find, but I wanted to know. God would have to be a power that could not be defiled by anyone or anything.”
“Change?”
“Change, yes.”
“But it’s not a god. It’s not a person or an intelligence or even a thing. It’s just….I don’t know. An idea.”
I smiled. Was that such a terrible criticism?
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Entropy is the creator of time Zettel 202109062200 and the engine of change. To me, change and entropy are inseparable.
Sounds like somebody else thinks change (or enropy) is God, too.
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