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From: rcd@opus.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Laws of Nature
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Date: Sat, 5-May-84 01:19:03 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  5 01:19:03 1984
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>>=rosen, >=norris
>> And what is the cause of this "pressure?"  If everything must have a cause,
>> so must this.  If some things may be causeless, why not the universe?
>
>Because you can't reverse entropy.

Entropy gets a worse rap than God.  It's less understood and is more often
mis-attributed as being (or not being) a causal factor for things...[but
see net.origins if you want the really ludicrous ones]  Did I miss a :-),
or does Norris actually think that the way you wind up the universe is to
suck all the entropy out of it, and that requires a causal agent?
(BTW, in case you're curious, the real statement is not "you can't reverse
entropy" but roughly "the entropy of an isolated system is monotonically
nondecreasing with time".)
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