Shelby Moore writes:
* 1856 Thermo Law: entire universe (a closed system, i.e. everything) trends to maximum disorder.
Will Ness wrote:
On the very, *very*, VERY long timescale.
I love your ascii art :) Note I put it last in the list for reason. Not to be combative, but your statement encapsulates a common fallacy (even though you have not stated an error). Although it is true the exponential local orders are randomly[1] created while (actually necessary ingredient in[2]) breaking down of global order on the universal trend towards maximum disorder, these are occurring simultaneously with infinite cases of exponential decay[1]. Haskell may end up being a good example of success (rising up out of the OOP "failures"): http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-November/068481.html The fallacy is rooted in the concept that time is an absolute reference point, but remember that Eistein ignored the complex of the Lorentz Equations. [1] Doesn't seem like random until you consider all the failures you didn't read about. [2] I have a good theory about what knowledge is, and it is precisely the exponential deviation from the Bell Curve (yet even any knowledge succumbs to the Theorems and exponentially decays eventually[3])-- just deviating is failure, but deviating is success if also suck the Bell Curve towards you at exponential rate: http://www.coolpage.com/commentary/economic/shelby/Bell%20Curve%20Economics.... (Theory of Everything is near the end, and I have since refined it at my blog, but I have not published a coherent paper yet). I am just sharing, not professing, so flame if you want, and I won't be offended. [3]Time is shared reality, that is why we can say "eventually" or long, *long*, LONG time, if the shared experience is stable, then the knowledge has a long exponential stability. But there is new knowledge competing all the time. Small things can grow faster-- oak trees don't grow to the moon. There are infinite simultaneous realities going on right now out there (due to permutations of interactions) between billions of humans. Thus we can say thus far that Bill Gates was much more knowledgeable (if our shared reality is the mainstream one) than proponents of pure FP, because he moved more shared reality exponentially. I am trying to bring a key piece of knowledge to the mix that might change that: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-November/068436.html http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-November/068479.html
In the meantime, chaos creates clashes of matter, which cause local energy outbursts (i.e. galaxies), which pump their immediate surroundings, where natural selection in presence of energy influx leads to increasing complexity.
Agreed as I described above.
To persist for a long, *long*, LONG time.
It depends what you mean by persist. For example the a fiat world reserve currency (first ever in history of world, i.e. dollar) persisted since 1971, but probably won't exist beyond 2020 at best: http://goldwetrust.up-with.com/economics-f4/what-is-money-t44-15.htm#2177 While one widely shared perception is peaking and rotting, another one is smoldering and ready to do the 50% pond covered in the 30th day of the Lily's month maturity. And besides, there isn't just one reality at any time. Time is itself just an arbitrary perception. This is why Bible's logarithmic time scale can jive with carbon dating, ... (move it to my blog if you want to discuss further)... off topic of this list...