At 15:12 2004. 06. 15.t Conve -0500, Stan wrote:
(We can asume
that the
Universe is an isolated system because it could not expand acceleratedly
if
it were not effectively so.)
...
Viewed this way, the Second
Law is
a final cause of everything that happens.
These are contradicting.
In fact, thermodynamics looks at the Universe as
an isolated system. This is true for its outside boundaries.
Yet, it is not isolated "inside". It has many-many subsystems
inside. These are not isolated, because they are in a permanent exchange
of energy, matter, etc. with their environment, i.e., the rest of the
Universe. In turn the "rest of the Universe" has open
boundaries (inside). The "Second Law" cannot be applied just in
these small (but many) open "subsystems".
The curiosity is, that any "emergence"
(= "everything that happens") takes place there. In short, all
new qualities (like higher hierarchical level physical structures,
biological molecules, living matter (cells), etc.) emerge just where one
cannot apply the Second Law in the lack of the closure/isolation
condition.
In philosophical terms the Universe
"evolves" due to the existence of subsystems, where the
conditions of the Second Law do not prevail.
Gyuri
Symmetry Festival 2003
http://www.conferences.hu/symmetry2003/
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