A state of maximum entropy
The second law of thermodynamics applied to explain life’s messy state
A state of maximum entropy – The second law of thermodynamics applied
(explaining life’s messy state) – edited 21 December 2020
I, while investigating the
efficiency of steam engines,
accidentally stumbled upon
the ending of the universe –
THE HEAT DEATH – resulting from
a state of maximum entropy
(dS > 0);
where d is measuring change
and S represents entropy,
which must always be increasing.
applied to my life this equation
illuminates its messy state:
recent alcoholic; redundant,
after twenty years of rising;
marriage spent, dry, not a word shared
from October to December;
a new year’s birth beckoning joyless.
ringed purely for the children
our hearts separate, screams contained
but ravaged the scars surface, exposed
ruthlessly stamped by time’s brutal march
A state of maximum entropy
Disorder relentless increasing
Entropy, I remember was an increase in energy that has taken a form that can no longer be used, which will result in a universe dying of coldness. What a world, when research into something of benign interest leads right back to relationship difficulties.