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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (26972)	12/14/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) of 108807

RE: from disorder to order The second law of thermodynamics applies only to closed systems, not to open subsystems. Huge numbers of living organisms, like yourself, are constantly becoming better organized thus locally violating the 2d Law. That is one necessary but not sufficient condition for life. Solar systems collapsing from cold prestellar clouds of gas become better organized (their temperatures are increase) -- they convert potential gravitational energy into heat (and later, in stars, into subatomic forces). One of the strongest scientific arguments against raising the dead is the humpty-dumpty argument in that there is no known way or returning a non-functioning (dead) organism to a prior, more highly organized state. Cells and molecules in dying organisms are subject to thermodynamically irreversible chemical mechanisms. Of course, we may reverse these processes (we have already started with transplants) but this makes organisms into open systems. Oh, by the way, many scientists believe it will take a very long time for matter to disappear. Protons appear to have an infinite half-life. No one has seen one unattacked by other particles disintegrate yet.

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