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Originally Posted by TubaMorg
I have noticed over the last couple of years a disturbing increase in randomness. I first noticed this when my daughter began describing random events in her life:
"I was, like, looking at a small tree and, like, I just randomly said 'sticks are just dead branches that have fallen off of trees'"
I commended her for her astute observation but was troubled by the seemingly lack of randomness in her random comment. Have I, being older, begun to loose my powers of observation? As she settled firmly into her tweener years, she began to describe (ad nauseam) many more random comments she makes every day. I was still having trouble detecting the randomness but I was getting worried.
Now, evidently, many more young people are noticing randomness where none has existed previously. Evidently people are just going about their day when BAM! curious sentences are exiting their mouths with no thought or sensory input.
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So the question is, with all this extra randomness that we are seeing recently, is the universe winning? Are we devolving back to complete disorder?
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It's either that, or that there has been this disorder all this time and no one has bothered recognizing it... as JesseK sort of pointed out.
I personally think that the universe has had us all along. First it was through astrology and the astrologers trying to predict near and distant futures with horoscopes, now it has astronomy and astronomers trying to figure out what the motion and the actions of the stars mean through telescopes. I mean, we just recently, on a historical time scale, demoted Pluto to dwarf planet. Then of course there's this very planet, which just recently parked a twister in Atlanta: only the second twister I have heard of to strike a metropolitan area (Salt Lake City being the other). I could go on, but yeah, randomness and entropy have rocked this universe since prior to Adam and Eve.
That said, I tried to do a short response to this right around 4:47 this morning, when I couldn't sleep, only to find out CD was down for a routine system backup
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Good day to you all! Thank you for starting this little thread: right when General Chem 2 decided to start covering entropy and the Laws of Thermodynamics. Coinkidink I think not...
