Accepting our mortality and viewing this inevitable end as a guide liberates us from life’s petty dramas and the demands of our ego. Confronting the truth that death could arrive at any moment reminds us that we have no time to delay, making us realize the true value of time. When you deeply feel the relentless flow of time, seconds are no longer things to be brushed aside; they transform into irreversible masterpieces. For when living with this awareness, you no longer have any time left for falsehood or procrastination.
The Cartesian view of classical science had described the
world as an automaton, which was deterministic and capable of
total description in the form of causal laws, or "laws of nature."
Today many natural scientists would argue that the world should
be described quite differently. 9 It is a more unstable world, a
much more complex world, a world in which perturbations play
a big role, one of whose key questions is how to explain how such
complexity arises. Most natural scientists no longer believe that
the macroscopic can simply be deduced in principle from a simpler microscopic world. Many now believe that complex systems
are self-organizing, and that consequently nature can no longer
be considered to be passive.
It is not that they believe Newtonian physics to be wrong, but
that the stable, time-reversible systems which Newtonian science described represent only a special, limited segment of reality. Newtonian physics describes, for example, the motion of
the planets but not the development of the planetary system. It
describes systems at equilibrium or near to equilibrium but not
systems far from equilibrium, conditions that are at least as
frequent, if not more frequent, than systems at equilibrium.
The conditions of a system far from equilibrium are not timereversible, in which it is sufficient to know the "law" and the initial conditions in order to predict its future states. Rather, a system far from equilibrium is the expression of an "arrow of time,"
whose role is essential and constructive. In such a system, the future is uncertain and the conditions are irreversible. The laws
that we can formulate therefore enumerate only possibilities,
never certainties.
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“every life contains many millions of decisions. some big, some small. but every time one decision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. an irreversible variation occurs, which in turn leads to further variations.”
irreversible izlerken
"Neler olacağını gayet iyi biliyorum (çünkü hikâyenin sonunu baştan biliyorum), ama yine de buna inanasım gelmiyor, bu yüzden de endişeyle doluyum. Kaçınılmaz olan gerçekten olacak mı?"
Time&Heat
When the stone reaches the ground, it stops, you might object: if you watch the film reversed, you see a stone leaping up from the ground by itself, and this is implausible. But when the stone reaches the ground and stops, where does its energy go? It heats the ground! At the precise moment when heat is produced, the process is irreversible: the past differs from the future. It is always heat and only heat that distin-guishes the past from the future.
This is universal. A burning candle is transformed into smoke the smoke cannot transform into a candle - and a candle produces heat. A boiling-hot cup of tea cools down and does not heat up: it diffuses heat. We live and get old: producing heat. Our old bicycle wears out with time: produc-ing heat through friction. Think of the solar system. At first approximation, it continues to turn like an immense mechanism always equal to itself. It doesn't produce heat and, in fact, if you watched it in reverse you wouldn't notice anything strange about it. But looked at more closely, there are also irreversible phenomena: the Sun is using up its combustible hydrogen and will eventually exhaust it and extinguish: the Sun, too, is getting older and, in fact, pro-duces heat. The Moon also appears to orbit the Earth unchangingly and be always equal to itself, whereas in reality it is slowly moving away. This is because it raises tides, and the tides heat the sea a little, thus exchanging energy with the Moon.
Directions for DecompositionAlıntı
We want to force the past, we want to act retroactively, to protest against the irreversible.
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