Hawking Forum Post 31858


Subject: Re: The role of man...
Date: September 18, 2000 at 18:02:18
Poster: Samuel A. (Sam) Cox

Hi: Observation as important to the existence of the universe is a very fundamental concept in relativity. The importance of observation to existence relates to man yes, but it relates to our origin in an even more essential way.

I told another person on this board that energy has (and is) the capacity to do work. To put it another way, energy, in the form of photons as I am discussing it now has the capacity to reduce chaos and decrease the entropy of the universe...

AND HOW!! Look at yourself, and see what energy has done. The order in your body, in fact the order in a blade of grass is a trillion/trillion times greater than that in a high performance car.

Something doesn't come from nothing- in this universe, or any other. If light has the capacity to impose that kind of order on matter, in such a way as to "create" life, it in some way MUST reflect this high level of complexity (low,low,low,low) entropy itself.

Believe you me, this universe is perpetually observed!...and if it wasn't, it wouldn't exist. I'm talking science, not about Decarte! Best Wishes, Sam Cox

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