A Summary
Gravity and Thermodynamics
A perhaps clearer summary of what this is all about
All materials heavier than hydrogen were - and are! - being forged in the center of stars by nuclear fusion, as a consequence of the gravity of these stellar objects.
Each new atom, or collection thereof, so created is more complex than its predecessor, and is created in an ever shortening span of time. Thus the effect of gravity increases complexity, and so, by that definition, reduces entropy; it does so on all levels.
All forms of energy prevailing, such as heat, light, and movement, on Earth ultimately originate in the Sun, the Moon or the Earth itself as a consequence of the gravity of these stellar objects as well. The same applies for others.
Life on Earth is but the latest stage of complexity in this location in space and at this moment in time. Along with the energy it feeds upon and the material that it is composed of, living tissue is, simply put, just another consequence of gravity.
The high- energy, low- entropy conditions brought forth by the self- accumulation and self- organization of matter through its own gravity sparks a thermodynamic reaction, of which human economy is a part.
The laws governing this process will not allow a profit.
Humans are thermodynamic entities; the second law applies
To wit:
All matter, by its own gravity, constantly enhances its own structure, order, grading and complexity, thereby providing the complement, or rather the prerequisite, for any thermodynamics.
It is not the other way around.
This increase in complexity (or reduction of entropy) as the key element presents itself in three, by now parallel, but consecutive stages; each one shorter than the one before, and each one accelerating itself (a property of all gravitational systems):
1. Physical:
All the known elements are produced over time in the gravitational centers of the stars, by nuclear fusion and under the determining influence of gravity, from the original, most primitive and simplest of all elements, hydrogen, which constitutes them as the only existing material in the beginning of the universe.
The number of different natural elements known to us is thus advanced from 1 to about 100, in addition to the variety of internal atomic structures of the individual elements.
2. Chemical:
These new elements are then scattered into space in supernovae and accumulate again in smaller centers of gravity, such as planets; and, again under the same determining influence of gravity, and over time (but in less than was necessary for their formation), themselves form ever new molecular combinations.
The number of new materials now present in the universe already becomes incalculable.
3. Biological:
Under appropriate conditions, some of the increasingly complex molecules acquire the ability to thermodynamically decompose other molecules and excrete waste, without themselves fundamentally changing; this by exploiting the material and energy streams produced by the gravitational centers in their proximity - their gravity, to be exact. Life begins, and with that evolution or change in ever shorter time.
The number of different molecules being able to be thus biologically generated is beyond any measure.
So life on Earth (or anywhere in space), as well as is Earth itself and every still dead planet, and the entire cosmos in its present form, is not a frighteningly unlikely coincidence, contradictory to all natural laws of decline and dissolution, but simply an inevitable result of 13 billion years of physical influence by the gravity of matter upon itself.
In one sentence:
In the course of now 13 billion years, the matter of the universe transformed itself, by its own gravity, and over several levels, from a dead cloud of hydrogen gas or plasma into a collection of highly complex, partially living and self- sensitive matter - and that is just the latest step in this place and by this time, for the transformation is ongoing.
Everything else is just a statistical probability, not a coincidence - "There are no coincidences".
Just as there are no real contradictions - instead, one of the assumptions involved is wrong. ( - Ayn Rand )