Much too fast. He's introducing difficult (very difficult to me) concepts at great speed and then quickly moving on to or adding other difficult concepts. Concepts such as entropy. Which he "explains" in like one sentence. And then moves on. I HATE lousy teachers.
I always thought of entropy as one of the sad facts of the universe. Order cannot be created. If you build a nice house with a symmetrical portico, you are creating a bit of order in your personal space, but also creating an equal or larger amount of disorder in the forest where the trees have to be felled in order to create your house. Disorder always wins out, and the equilibrium point is chaos sliding to nothingness......Apparently I'm wrong. Entropy has something to do with thermodynamics and the rate of change or some such unpoetic shit. Every time I think I've found the handle on understanding the universe, I find my ideas are misinformed and ignorant.
Time is the permeable substance that pervades all of reality and creation wherever it exists. Think of time as a porous field that just sits there letting things like matter and energy permeate through it and saturate it. That permeation spreading through the whole of creation. Time is and was the Nothing before the big bang or any other bang. It the voice, just waiting. Time as an abstract of a series of moment points moving forward one after the other is correct as a function of the arrow of time. That's why you can never revisit an event at any point in space anywhere ever again. Once it's done, it's done.
How time relates to entropy is only in the sense that at the end of the universe as we now know it at 10^12^100 years is meaningless to time overall. All matter and energy will become to a state of zero or near zero. All atomic structures and sub-atomic structures will simply fall apart into their constituent parts and frankly, you'll just end up with an endless ocean of quarks frozen in space, at absolute zero. Utter heat death, but the fabric of time, being permeated by such heat death will simply go on. Even if there is nothing ever again to observe it doing so.
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Much too fast. He's introducing difficult (very difficult to me) concepts at great speed and then quickly moving on to or adding other difficult concepts. Concepts such as entropy. Which he "explains" in like one sentence. And then moves on. I HATE lousy teachers.
I always thought of entropy as one of the sad facts of the universe. Order cannot be created. If you build a nice house with a symmetrical portico, you are creating a bit of order in your personal space, but also creating an equal or larger amount of disorder in the forest where the trees have to be felled in order to create your house. Disorder always wins out, and the equilibrium point is chaos sliding to nothingness......Apparently I'm wrong. Entropy has something to do with thermodynamics and the rate of change or some such unpoetic shit. Every time I think I've found the handle on understanding the universe, I find my ideas are misinformed and ignorant.
He lost me at "smooth".
I enjoyed because he was humble about saying "We don't know yet" a lot.
Anyone who has had small children understands entropy well. Come to think of it, teenagers create a lot of entropy too.
Time is the permeable substance that pervades all of reality and creation wherever it exists. Think of time as a porous field that just sits there letting things like matter and energy permeate through it and saturate it. That permeation spreading through the whole of creation. Time is and was the Nothing before the big bang or any other bang. It the voice, just waiting. Time as an abstract of a series of moment points moving forward one after the other is correct as a function of the arrow of time. That's why you can never revisit an event at any point in space anywhere ever again. Once it's done, it's done.
How time relates to entropy is only in the sense that at the end of the universe as we now know it at 10^12^100 years is meaningless to time overall. All matter and energy will become to a state of zero or near zero. All atomic structures and sub-atomic structures will simply fall apart into their constituent parts and frankly, you'll just end up with an endless ocean of quarks frozen in space, at absolute zero. Utter heat death, but the fabric of time, being permeated by such heat death will simply go on. Even if there is nothing ever again to observe it doing so.
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