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To: Southack
I was under the impression that Chaos Theory said simply that you naturally gain more order in your system as you lose useful energy.

Are you saying that undirected entropy naturally creates order?

30 posted on 08/02/2004 9:53:13 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: D Rider
If you have no energy in a system, say, a system of 4 tennis balls inside a box, then you have an ordered group of tennis balls inside your box. Ergo, order.

If you add energy to the box (e.g. shake it), then the tennis balls are no longer arranged in a precise order (i.e. disorder) until all of your useful energy in the system has entropied again.

5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

32 posted on 08/02/2004 10:02:21 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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