“Creation Revisited” by
Peter Atkins depressed me. I have, of
course, heard about entropy, chaos, and chance in my science courses. But, those ideas have never been presented in
such a way as to posit that evolution and consciousness are a result of the
chaos. That seems counter intuitive to
me. Evolution is generally perceived as becoming
more complicated which I intuitively think means less chaotic.
“The only constant thing in the universe is
change.” It’s a cliché that we have
heard all our lives. Now, I read there
wouldn’t even be a universe without chaos.
I am struggling with these concepts.
I can understand how some form of chaos triggered the Big Bang. But, then all that energy that was expelled
eventually gelled into universes, galaxies, stars, planets and us. That gelling and congregating of matter is a
result of the universe becoming more chaotic?
We are what we are because the system is decaying?
Although I am not religious,
I must still hold on to some anthropomorphic ideal that there is some order to
the universe, some reason. Yet, Peter
Atkins tells me that it is continual degradation that spawned intelligent
life. The motiveless, purposeless
universe just bounced around until a motivated entity that seeks purpose was
generated. There’s no reason why one
change occurs instead of another. 
I don’t know. I’m a bit depressed by it all. I guess I’m just glad motiveless molecules
jostled around enough for me to be on the planet.
But, is it really that
simple? What makes us all who we
are? Smart or not? Violent or not? Beautiful or not? Driven or not? Are we are who we are just because of the
roll of the dice, or jostle of the molecule?
Ok, you need to snap out it and have a drink of Crown. The universe is not random it has a distinct plan to take over the other universes next door. Just bear with it, it moves really slow. In fact, you’re probably best off not even worrying about it; this whole plan it devised really has some major flaws to be worked out before anything tangible can be accomplished. I mean dark matter hasn’t been doing anything. The black holes have now just popped out of existence in places, off partying with the dark matter probably. It’s all really kind of a joke as far as universal takeovers go. The takeover of universe 1025 happened in like 4 billion years, it didn’t even see it coming. But here, chaos simply hasn’t grown up. It runs around, playing with things, knocking things over, it’s a friggin’ mess. We’re not even close to organizing a well put-together strike force. But random it is not. Oh no. We’re headed there, baby, just a matter of time. Well, you know, that’s going to be like 10, 12, maybe 13 billion years. You know what, fuck it. Just ignore it; this probably isn’t going to happen. I don’t trust physics at all. In fact, I’m going to ignore it too. This universe doesn’t own me. If its chaos comes and knocks over my card house then fine, I refuse to allow some giant entropic NAESAYER to get me down. Ok then. Did someone mention Crown? I have read it’s the universe's only Achilles heel.
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