Quote Originally Posted by vacuum View Post
Here's a really interesting theory on entropy:
http://www.quantamagazine.org/201404...uantum-source/

The basic idea is that the entropy of the universe is actually constant, rather than something that is increasing forever. It posits that entropy is the result of quantum entanglement phenomina, rather than the classical irreversible statistics explanation.

The significance of this is obviously very big. It means that there is a negentropic force which you could call life/god if you wanted to use that term. Why? Because we know entropy is real. But if the entropy of the universe remains zero constantly, then there is an equal thing counteracting it.

There's nothing magical about it. It's just the flow of information, how that information is concentrated and arranged (god) and how that information is dispersed (entropy). I'm not saying this is my "religion" but I thought I'd add on to what you said.
Thanks, this is very interesting. I've always appreciated your contributions, Vacuum.

Using an obscure approach to quantum mechanics that treated units of information as its basic building blocks, Lloyd spent several years studying the evolution of particles in terms of shuffling 1s and 0s. He found that as the particles became increasingly entangled with one another, the information that originally described them (a “1” for clockwise spin and a “0” for counterclockwise, for example) would shift to describe the system of entangled particles as a whole. It was as though the particles gradually lost their individual autonomy and became pawns of the collective state. Eventually, the correlations contained all the information, and the individual particles contained none. At that point, Lloyd discovered, particles arrived at a state of equilibrium, and their states stopped changing, like coffee that has cooled to room temperature.