Notes - humor and irony with order and chaos

       Barely mid-morning. Doug sent you an enjoyable response to yesterday's question. -Amorella

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Dick, Thermodynamics was not one of my favorites because of the article you just posted. It always seemed to me to be just hearsay developed by someone and not a true law of physics. In any case it seems to work. Your question depends on the number of tries at a given outcome as a probability is just that and not a guarantee of a given outcome. So how does nature try and how many times does it try? Then of course comes along quantum physics and almost everything improbable seems to occur all the time. Order reduces entropy, but how is order produced out of chaos. Ans is intelligence and knowledge, but who has that. LOL

Doug

To which you responded.

Thank you. This is a very good explanation from my limited perspective. The really big question is what you pose --How is order produced out of chaos?

Do you mean that we create an order when there might not be one in the deeper actuality, that is, our brains are built to create an order (our nature says order exists). It is back to the earth being the center of the universe; order is our domain whether it exists basically as chaos or not. In any case the LOL still yet a greater reality. Irony and humor go together and outfox both order and chaos.  ;-)  i.e. In the Beginning a hearty laugh was heard by no one there at the time -- we are the echo of the First Big Laugh.  

I'll stop now before I get carried away -- that is, get carried off to the funny farm.  

Thanks, Doug!  You make my day.   ;-)

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       You didn't add the 'Big' until after you sent Doug the note -- the Big Bang to the Big Laugh -- hearty, I like that. The sarcasm comes from the human perspective, and rightly so considering your existential circumstance. What do you think, my friend? - Amorella

       1024 hours. I think putting humor and irony first, let's say, a second before the Big Bang, makes everything easier to deal with in a general-understanding-of-being sort of way. It helps make my end-of-the-year day.

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Notes - entropy / ch.3.2 nfd.so.cho / desktop

       On Quora you learned the second law of thermodynamics is really a secondary law in physics, it is not a primary law of physics. - Amorella

       1309 hours. Yes, and entropy has something to do with it. I erased the Quora question/response. I need to check this out better because it seemed important at the reading.

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From Wikipedia - entropy

. . . Second law of thermodynamics

The second law of thermodynamics requires that, in general, the total entropy of any system can't decrease other than by increasing the entropy of some other system. Hence, in a system isolated from its environment, the entropy of that system tends not to decrease. It follows that heat can't flow from a colder body to a hotter body without the application of work (the imposition of order) to the colder body.

Secondly, it is impossible for any device operating on a cycle to produce net work from a single temperature reservoir; the production of net work requires flow of heat from a hotter reservoir to a colder reservoir, or a single expanding reservoir undergoing adiabatic cooling, which performs adiabatic work.

As a result, there is no possibility of a perpetual motion system. It follows that a reduction in the increase of entropy in a specified process, such as a chemical reaction, means that it is energetically more efficient.

It follows from the second law of thermodynamics that the entropy of a system that is not isolated may decrease. An air conditioner, for example, may cool the air in a room, thus reducing the entropy of the air of that system. The heat expelled from the room (the system), which the air conditioner transports and discharges to the outside air, always makes a bigger contribution to the entropy of the environment than the decrease of the entropy of the air of that system.

Thus, the total of entropy of the room plus the entropy of the environment increases, in agreement with the second law of thermodynamics.

In mechanics, the second law in conjunction with the fundamental thermodynamic relation places limits on a system's ability to do useful work. The entropy change of a system at temperature T absorbing an infinitesimal amount of heat δq in a reversible way, is given by δq/T. More explicitly, an energy T_R S is not available to do useful work, where T_R is the temperature of the coldest accessible reservoir or heat sink external to the system. For further discussion, see Exergy.

Statistical mechanics demonstrates that entropy is governed by probability, thus allowing for a decrease in disorder even in an isolated system. Although this is possible, such an event has a small probability of occurring, making it unlikely.

Selected and edited from Wikipedia - entropy

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       1324 hours. If I have this right, if something is highly probable in physics, it will be. I'll have to check with Doug.  (I think the writer in the Quora column said something such as this, but I am not sure. It seemed reasonable whatever he said.)   

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       Mid-afternoon. A stop at Hallmark at VOA as there is a sign "Store Closing Sale". - Amorella

       1459 hours. This is a surprise as the store has been here since the VOA opened, some fifteen years I think.

        You are waiting for Carol who is taking her walk at the community center. Let's go to chapter three drafting. - Amorella

       1522 hours. I'm ready.

       1709 hours. We have chapter three completed for now. Here it is.

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Soki's Choice 3, ©2017, rho

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         It is another pleasant Cleveland day in late January. Pyl, Justin and Blake finished a lunch of ham and cheese sandwiches with sides of chips. Getting up from the table Pyl checks the tree-lined backyard for blown small branches and sticks.

         Justin and Blake move to the couch and chair in the nearby Bose-styled media room.  Once settled Justin asks, “How is the family company doing?”

         Once Blake adjusts the sound of smooth jazz playing and sits relaxed, he talks the CEO talk of Electronic Communication Software. “You know,” says Blake, “Dad started in a small empty space that had been a small used book store near the college campus. He took classes at Fenn College, in the early sixties then transferred to Case-Western. We grew up in a three-story off West Fairmount in the Heights.”

         “We drive by every time we come up,” responds Justin. “The old screened porch is still awesome.”

         “Dad had it screened. He reconditioned the old electric fan motors himself. We used it full time in the summer. In the late seventies, he thought about building chips for the radar detector business down in Cincinnati but decided it wasn’t for us.” Both men sit chilling on a long George Benson's guitar piece.

         Pyl strolls in from the back yard. “I love that big old sugar maple, look, it’s January and I found this beautiful orange leaf by the bushes.”

         In a perfectly cadenced tone Blake adds, “I'm thinking about cutting that maple down, Pyl. It's old and the highest tree out back. If we get a terrible storm it could come down on the house.”

         Glancing at the rising anger in Pyl’s face, Justin turns up the next piece, a Walter Beasley sax rendition of "Do You Wanna Dance," thinking on how brother-in-law Blake sets the bait and on how Pyl almost always picks up on it.

        

         The above is the usual morning banter when the three are together. It's a day like any other pops into the heads of each at nearly the same time but only the individual takes note. Routine is not a mind or a heart-grabber. Most day to day living is routine for most living in an urban atmosphere. Pyl is thinking about asking brother Blake what he thinks about their buying some Apple stock because Justin is positive the business is finally going to fold and when it does Microsoft and Compaq will jump up as there is not much competition. This will become a heated conversation later in the day and everyone knows it. Who's going to buy Apple or are they just going to fold into oblivion? For a Betweener these sorts of matters roll around in and out of like people's minds. Blake wonders on the sports teams and who is going to win or lose. Pyl is thinking on selling the plane or not. People think about personal relationships in the same way but not this family of three. No losers here, says the Soki; not if they can help it. I will do what I want, says Blake to himself, and each agrees, I will do what I want when I want to do it.

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         Mid-morning. Ship hovers well above the air traffic and well below any orbiting satellites. Lake Erie is straight down. Friendly sits around a handsomely dark wooded table-from-the-floor with Hartolite and Yermey. They are drinking a good-for-you yummy twistanshake and nibbling on p1green-forest-nuttleberry treats. All three sit bare breasted in colorful boxershort loungers relaxed on comfortchairs down so their clean bare feet and well-trimmed toe nails are firmly snuggled in the greenest plushest living blades of grass this side of HomePlanetsThree. Below Ship's floor is a living piece of bio-diverse machinery from his outer hull to his antigravobars pulse that allows these three perspicacious marsupial humanoids to serve as Ship's heart or Ship's humanity as it were, but not Ship's mind which is mostly his own.

         Ship is like these three earthlings, deep down he also thinks, I will do what I want when I want to do it. This Soki understands things, but he doesn’t know anything at the same time. Ship and I have something in common.

         For safety’s sake, the worst that can happen is Ship, with for his living crew attached, will run naked to HomePlanetsThree. When it comes to fight-or-flight the marsupial humanoids have always had some place to run for their own safety and survival. They have not had a stand-an-fight event for over twenty thousand earth years. A very strong social consciousness is necessity for this to be.

         "Do you think he'll take your offer?" asks Hartolite.

         Yermey responds, "I'm more interested in why Ship allowed the Cessna wingtip's touch. Ship knew the plane was close and he chose to do nothing until after the touch."

         With gazed eyes narrowing Captain Friendly recounts, "Ship allowed a touch not a collision. I too wonder about this. For now, though we need to go with what is. Unknowingly to this woman named Pill she may have scientific evidence of our existence to be analyzed as there may be microscopic evidence, traces of Blackanot mass on the wingtip. I think still it would be easier to buy the plane and allow them to make a healthy profit in the process. Besides, an electromagnetic anomaly may have allowed the plane to tap Ship. GodInFamily only knows stranger things have happened to us.

         "What do we do?" questions Hartolite. "Ship is autonomous as we came here on our own orders, not from ParentsinCharge." At least this is my assumption, considers Hartolite, if we don’t know the truth, surely Ship does.

         Friendly interrupts Hartolite, "We came to save this species of primates from the most abominably of plagues, perhaps the same one we had over twenty-thousand years ago."

         With his impish smile Yermey calms the notion, "We cannot know this coming plague on Earth is a certainty.” Pausing in the further reflection of a marsupial man who is nearly five hundred Earth years old, he says, “it is highly probable though, highly probable or otherwise I would not have volunteered for this surreptitious expedition to help save the people of this planet.”

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       Post as is. - Amorella

       1725 hours. I appear to be in the groove, as it were, as far as Soki's presentation is concerned.

       Dusk. It appears so, boy. You'll be told if something is out of line, that is, out of sync. More later tonight perhaps. You are going to do some lighter exercises and see what happens as far as your stats are concerned. - Amorella

       You just had Egg McMuffin suppers at McDonalds and Carol is in Kroger's for pork and sauerkraut for Sunday. - Amorella

       1934 hours. I was surprised Carol wanted to go out for supper but it is fine with me. Tomorrow we are going to Longhorn for one of the better meals at lunch, besides, Jen should be there and we can wish her a happy new year.

       Let's put the Intro and first three chapters in a single document for the record. - Amorella

       1937 hours. This sounds good to me. I cannot imagine I'll change my mind from a 'GO' for the Soki's Choice project. I do like the concept and it has taken me a bit to get into it. I needed a break from Merlyn.

       Writing is what is important to you; it's primary for your fingers and your mental health. - Amorella

        1942 hours. That's an odd way of putting it.

       Mental health includes heartansoulanmind, boy, at least in here. Physical health and spiritual health embody the humanity of a person's personality. - Amorella

       1945 hours. To be perfectly blunt and honest, I am not a good physical persona within the species, and spiritually I am not so much either.

       So, blunt boy, show me a point I am not aware of. - Amorella

       2204 hours. I have refiled and everything is in folders in "Soki's Choice Drafts", everything but the working document.

       That tidies the desktop for now. I prefer the right side of the desktop to top with "Notes 2009-2017" followed by "The Monthly Blog Note" followed down by "Soki's Choice [Folder] Drafts". Another folder below is "Present Working Docs". - Amorella

       2214 hours. Thank you for the suggestions. I like this cleaner desktop.

       All for tonight. Post. - Amorella