Tuesday, March 17, 2009

How Order comes from Chaos

Everything in the universe wants to end up in some kind of "stable" state. At the atomic level , all matter continues to bump and jump around, that is, keep moving until it gets to a state where it can rest (a stable state). At the atomic level, atoms are formed as protons and neutrons simply find groups that they can "settle" to, whereas unstable molecules tend to break apart and reform into smaller more stable patterns. Currently, one of the major goals of nuclear physics is to create an atom that has a stable pattern to it but is larger (more protons and neutrons) than any known atom.

All things (elements) are made of atoms, so if we could make a new atom that was stable, theres no telling what its properties might be. Gold? Silver? Plutonium? Air? all made of protons and neutrons, just in different patterns.

Mainly unrelated but similar result: Here is a video showing this in the macro world with sugar and sound vibrations. A stark illustration of how "order" naturally comes from what we would perceive as "chaos".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfs4Rd5f_IQ&NR=1
This would actually suggest that Order is all around, in the form of soundwaves, radiation, light, etc. All forces of pattern influencing solid matter in various ways.

The truth is, chaos is unstable, so while something can explode, say, the big bang, once freed up, all that exploded stuff is going to race to get to stable states as soon as possible, and in the case of stars going supernovae as we can observe any day of the week, we can detect literally hundreds of elements forming from these massive explosions and forming readily into solid bodies of matter (asteroids, planets, etc) This is readily observable any day of the week. This is how "organized" stuff is made by an explosion.

The end..?

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