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karl
United Kingdom
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 Posted - Mar 07 2011 : 3:04:51 PM
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Watched this new series last night. It followed the second law of thermodynamics and entropy.
Brian Cox was narrating about how all the stars will eventually die out and black holes evaporate into endless space and everything will continue without change for ever.
I'm sure there must have been many lamenting the extinction of the material world. All I could feel was that draw that deep meditation brings, the quiescent silence of latent energies where nothing and everything exists in total equilibrium and balance. A deep silence filled with a perfect sound and it felt like home. |
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sagebrush
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2011 : 4:11:04 PM
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I bet it could have been fascinating to watch the wonders of the universe, however who would really be qualified in KNOWING about the entire universe, its extinction....and just how long have humans been contemplating the extinction of the material world?
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sagebrush
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2011 : 4:30:32 PM
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I don't even know who brian cox is, and once I read that he was a physicist still does not make me think that he really knows it all.....I will give him credit for naming his child Moki which means Deer in Hopi.....
Karl...do you not like the material world?
Do you understand thermodynamics and entropy? |
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sagebrush
USA
292 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2011 : 4:33:59 PM
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Thermodynamics, laws of The three laws were put in a memorable form by the English scientist and novelist C. P. Snow: (i) you cannot win (matter and energy are conserved); (ii) you cannot break even (cannot return to the same entropy state, since disorder always increases); (iii) you cannot get out of the game (absolute zero is unobtainable).
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/laws-o...xzz1Fx4lMnBt |
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karl
United Kingdom
1812 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2011 : 6:23:48 PM
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Originally posted by sagebrush
I bet it could have been fascinating to watch the wonders of the universe, however who would really be qualified in KNOWING about the entire universe, its extinction....and just how long have humans been contemplating the extinction of the material world?
It's all just Maya and there is beauty there as in all creations. |
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sagebrush
USA
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Posted - Mar 07 2011 : 6:38:31 PM
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| what would you have called it before you knew the term maya? |
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sagebrush
USA
292 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2011 : 7:31:09 PM
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| suffering---DUH! |
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karl
United Kingdom
1812 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2011 : 07:33:38 AM
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There is nothing which says that you cannot appreciate the material world or take pleasure from it. We are born into this.
Suffering only comes from the belief that there is control over the illusion.That things should be different to how they are. Any creation is an extension of I and can be appreciated in the moment. |
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stevenbhow
Japan
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Posted - Mar 09 2011 : 03:33:47 AM
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I'm also fascinated with cosmology and quantum theories, though things seem to change so fast it is hard to keep track of all the latest info. I wonder if some of the newer theories about dark energy and dark matter changes things at all?
I think i remember reading in Hidden Dimensions by B. Alan Watts that Zero Point Energy can actually violate the second law of thermodynamics. In an absolute vacuum quantum particles spontaneously appear and disappear, apparently creating and destroying themselves. |
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wonders of the universe series
