Dean's Blog

It’s interesting, as I find myself somehow growing older I am finding myself more interested in things that I should have been paying more attention to in High School, such as the Law of Conservation and Entropy. Likewise I also find myself interested in Thermodynamics against the infinite Monkey Theorum, that a large group of monkeys and typewriters could, given a few eternities, produce all the books of the British Museum (or one immortal monkey).

It’s basically chaos verses order. Naturally, things want to break down into lighter and smaller particles until molecules release their bonds and all becomes unorganized matter. That’s the first and second laws of Thermodynamics (Conservation and Entropy). Matter isn’t created or destroyed, and it wants to become unorganized from an organized state. So, how did things become organized? The monkey theorum states that there is a 24 in 10 million million million million million million million million chance that a shuffled deck of cards will fall into an orgranized grouping. Pretty near impossible.

Likewise, the idea of walking along a beach and finding a fine watch. One would assume that someone dropped the watch, and that some factory produced it, not that the universe came together and happened to make a watch for you to find on the beach. Yet the monkey folks think that is the case, that once and awhile, there’s just a watch , or a car, or perhaps a skyscraper that just comes together out of chaotic unorganized matter. Seems pretty silly, but I have had my keys and money vanish without a trace. Some accelerated Entropy perhaps. Maybe that is what happened to the WMD’s in Iraq, and the reason there is nothing good on TV anymore.