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Slightly Resisting Chaos

The world is disorderly, chaotic, always running towards scattered disorganization. And yet I still drive with my cruise control on.

Tuesday, January 4

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

Posted by Megan at 1/04/2011

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"chaos"

(derived from the Ancient Greek Χάος, Chaos) typically means a state lacking order or predictability. In Greek mythical cosmogony, particularly in the Theogony (Origin of the Gods) of Hesiod (8th–7th century BC), Chaos is the original dark void from which everything else appeared.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos

"entropy"

is a measure of how organized or disorganized a system is: "Gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information"[3]. Entropy is an important part of the second law of thermodynamics (see below).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy

"second law of thermodynamics"

an expression of the universal principle of entropy, stating that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics