chroot

Hey, man, quit wasting the entropy... all that typing you're doing, all that metabolic heat you're making, all the electricity your computer is using -- you're just using up our entropy and hastening the heat death of the universe! Stop it!

Oh, wait... I am, too.

- Warren

magician

I assume you mean "all-knowing".

[QUOTE]Originally posted by woodyandy
[B]All now bow and worship the one real truth you don't want to know.

JonBoy

[QUOTE]Originally posted by chroot
[B]magician,

A) I already explained that the faith/belief issue was nothing more than sloppy word choice on my part.

chroot

Mmmmm... I love the smell of condescension in the morning. Oh, and since you're so hell-bent on being the Spelling and Grammar Police for us all -- if you're going to attack me by pointing out my "condescention," at least learn how to spell it.

There are MANY such systems. They are known as "self-organizing," and typically share mathematical features with critical point phenomena.

In fact, there are something like eight billion examples of complex, ordered, non-equilibrium, self-organizing systems living on this planet right now: humans.

- Warren

magician

And lima beans and gnats and amoebae; in short, life.

Bingo! That's one.

Another?

chroot

BZ reactions
crystal growth
electronic orbits around nuclei
degenerate electron gases in semiconductors
lasing systems
neutron stars
foucault pendula on rotating bodies
populations of animals
...
...
...

- Warren

Cape Cod

Damn! I was gonna guess it was the perpetual motion machine I just bought. Here it is again:

magician

The other example of which I was thinking.

Cape Cod

[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician
[B]

I assume you mean "all-knowing".



There are two examples in Nature of which I'm aware which work in contrast to entropy.

Cape Cod

Hey Brits. Is it supposed to be Ho?