160419: Entropy, an end to the very nature of our physical universe and panentheism
What does the conceptual framework of entropy have to offer us in our examination of panentheism?
Entropy: In a wider sense, entropy can be interpreted as a measure of disorder; the higher the entropy the greater the disorder. …the entropy of the universe (if it can be considered a closed system) is increasing and its available energy is decreasing.
–Oxford Concise Science Dictionary, p. 255
Entropy sounds complex, but it has a simple idea to offer. It states that within a closed system, a system that is located within a boundary, the system will eventually die. The more science learns, the more it appears that the life of the universe may be temporary. The life of the universe may be billions upon billions of years old, but it appears to have a beginning as well as an ending, just as Hindus have always believed.
But how does a universe die? Entropy tells us energy is the means by which work is done in our universe. Heat, in turn, is the basic means by which energy is transferred from one item in the universe to another. Basically, heat can only pass from a higher level to a lower level. In other words, a hot item (high energy item) can warm up a colder item (lower energy item) or one could say, a colder item “steals” heat from a hotter item. As this transfer of heat takes place, work is done.
When heat has finally been spread out equally (everything is the same temperature), no heat can transfer from one item to another because everything would then be the same temperature. If no heat can transfer from one place to another, then no work is able to occur. If no work occurs, no motion, no change, no life would occur within the universe.
What then of a physical universe which has reached a state wherein energy is equally distributed throughout the bounds of the physical universe?
Only panentheism offers a solution to this puzzle.
Panentheism states the physical universe is located within its creator and as such existence goes on within the creator of the physical universe despite the physical universe having met its demise through the equal distribution of energy and the cessation of all change within the physical universe, despite the demise of all motion within the physical universe for the ethereal goes on since the ethereal is non-physical comes to an end.
Pantheism/Atheism/… the concept of God/Brahma/Jehovah/the All/... simply being Mother Nature, falls short regarding their ability to modeling what would happen with the attainment of entropy as a final state of the physical universe.
What does the conceptual framework of entropy have to offer us in our examination of panentheism?
Entropy: In a wider sense, entropy can be interpreted as a measure of disorder; the higher the entropy the greater the disorder. …the entropy of the universe (if it can be considered a closed system) is increasing and its available energy is decreasing.
–Oxford Concise Science Dictionary, p. 255
Entropy sounds complex, but it has a simple idea to offer. It states that within a closed system, a system that is located within a boundary, the system will eventually die. The more science learns, the more it appears that the life of the universe may be temporary. The life of the universe may be billions upon billions of years old, but it appears to have a beginning as well as an ending, just as Hindus have always believed.
But how does a universe die? Entropy tells us energy is the means by which work is done in our universe. Heat, in turn, is the basic means by which energy is transferred from one item in the universe to another. Basically, heat can only pass from a higher level to a lower level. In other words, a hot item (high energy item) can warm up a colder item (lower energy item) or one could say, a colder item “steals” heat from a hotter item. As this transfer of heat takes place, work is done.
When heat has finally been spread out equally (everything is the same temperature), no heat can transfer from one item to another because everything would then be the same temperature. If no heat can transfer from one place to another, then no work is able to occur. If no work occurs, no motion, no change, no life would occur within the universe.
What then of a physical universe which has reached a state wherein energy is equally distributed throughout the bounds of the physical universe?
Only panentheism offers a solution to this puzzle.
Panentheism states the physical universe is located within its creator and as such existence goes on within the creator of the physical universe despite the physical universe having met its demise through the equal distribution of energy and the cessation of all change within the physical universe, despite the demise of all motion within the physical universe for the ethereal goes on since the ethereal is non-physical comes to an end.
Pantheism/Atheism/… the concept of God/Brahma/Jehovah/the All/... simply being Mother Nature, falls short regarding their ability to modeling what would happen with the attainment of entropy as a final state of the physical universe.
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