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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26972)12/13/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Craig Richards  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
All the available data shows that nothing has ever been observed going from disorder to order in this universe.

Bob, have you ever heard of 2nd order differential equations? This is part of the mathematics that doesn't lie, right? Well, it turns out that some chemical reactions are governed by 2nd order differential equations that create stable, ordered conditions as long as the variables remain in a certain overall range. Once the chemicals come into contact, they will tend towards an ordered state instead of a disordered state. I read a book about this 7-8 years ago, so I'm somewhat sketchy on the details, but it made a lot of sense to me, and went a long way towards a mathematical explanation of how order could be created from disorder. My recollection is also that the chemicals in DNA follow these 2nd order equations in their interactions.

Craig

I think the book I'm referring to is Order Out of Chaos:
amazon.com
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