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Explosions in the Sky (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (16 children)

An explosion is pure entropy. It's high energy releasing to a low energy state in an uncontrolled manner

We climb down the energy slope very slowly to reverse entropy and create order

The universe is like us - temporary order emerges as it slides towards entropy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps another way to think of it is that we're a patch of localised order in an overall disordered universe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Or perhaps more eloquently:

we're the standing part of a harmonic fart

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't understand this, but it sounds cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

We're the fixed red dot in the superposition of the green and blue waves interfering with one other

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