Just a quick tribute to all fighters for freedom (however portrayed as misguided, or actually misguided, or what have you) across America, past and present, particularly past. Seeing as how today is Veterans’ Day and I’d be amiss not to acknowledge it. Hmm, I think I was laying in bed at 11:11:11 though this morning, the 89th anniversary of the signing of the Armistace that ended World War I…

Okay, if you want to be picky I had just gone to bed. Seeing as how 11:11:11 would be measured in GMT +1 or something like that. But I digress…back to a salutation to all those veterans out there.

Okay, maybe I should be called out on eating too many candy bars and thus noticing this but just recently (VERY recently; less-used candy bars around my school campus still bear the older moniker) “King Size” has been replaced with “Large Size” on candy wrappers with no other difference in…um…anything. Wonder whether it was a political group or a feminist group (the latter I suppose…with a good bit of the former mixed in) that wanted to sue Hershey & Co. over this one.

Personally, “king size” has a nice ring to it that “large size” just can’t match. They should have made the candy bar size “XL Size” or “Extra Large” or something like that, something a little more catchy than “large size”. I mean, come on…

…which brings me to another thing…what are they gonna do about mattress sizes? Anything going to have to change there? I’m serious, folks…if that happened insanity and chaos would ensue…

Well, I’m writing about chemistry…sorta…when I should be writing down answers to chemistry problems. Ah well…

So you have the Second Law of Thermodynamics, right? It says that for every change in matter and energy, the entropy of the universe must incrtease. Meaning that the number of “microstates” available increases. You could call this randomness, bt it’s simply a measure of how many possibilities there are. You could call it decay too…in this context most people do…

Which brings up an interesting point. Don’t we see this in society? For every action man takes, somehow, somewhere something is fractionated. There are more possibilities, but this leads to societal decay from pretty much any viewpoint. One part of society may become more ordered, but for the rest of society things disintegrate more overall. Not a good thing, though of course it leads to lots of “possibilities”…

So, looking at things from a Crationist philosophical point of view (yeah I know you’re gonna stop reading right here) you have an explanation for why things haven’t quickly decayed to maximum possibility, maximum randomness, maximum decay: intervention by a Deity every few thousand years, imparting first destructive (flood) then socially constructive (incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection) energies into the universal system to reduce the number of possibilities by first destruction of unfavorable outcomes, then by unification of many outcomes into one. Therefore by an external force, for which the universe cannot account (because God is not becoming more decayed, random or microstate-filled due to principles of being outside of time etc.), imparted a “boost” to the universe so that it wouldn’t descend into complete and utter chaos, as manifested by multiplicities of possibilities, nearly all of which would be destructive and lead to the decimation, and ultimate destruction, of all creation into cold, dark, dead matter.

Which begs the conclusion that we may well be ripe for another input of energy (second coming or whatnot) or that, by extrapolation, it may be a millenium and then some away. Again, this is extrapolation so I am by no means predicting that the end ofthe world is nigh, but just throwing something out there…

Well, thanks for trying to follow the above. If you got confused, that’s fine. I just wrote this in maybe ten minutes though I’ve ben thinking about the whole idea for the past few days. Tell me what you think…

Well, as I wait for an extra-large batch of clothing to wash, and dry, and dry again (yay campus dryers) I’ve decided to finally breathe life back into this blog. Hopefully I’ll be posting to it every day, at least once per day, starting tomorrow proper (I consider days started at 6 am due to my late night schedules :D).

Anyhow, look for a mix of tech bits, personal life info and philosophical bits, all here and all categorized so that you don’t have to sort through one to get to the other.

More coming soon, but first I’m going to update the other site pages and take a shower…