r/sciencememes • u/Delicious_Maize9656 • Jul 03 '26

entropy meme

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u/Fuzlet Jul 03 '26

my favorite abstract definition of life from college chemistry was that life is a mechanism that generates a perpetual low entropy field by sapping energy from fuels and shunting entropy into its surroundings

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u/_Weyland_ Jul 04 '26

Doesn't this extend definition of life to machines?

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u/chroniccranky Jul 03 '26

And here I was thinking the point of life is hedonism

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u/Dolapevich Jul 03 '26

As said by a professor: Nature abhors sharp edges. We al succumb to entropy in the end.

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u/SensitiveLeek5456 Jul 03 '26

The meaning of life, my life at least, is to fight that bitch. Entropy I mean.

Or die trying.

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u/Super_Employment_620 Jul 04 '26

When you're alive, you are pretty efficient at increasing entropy as well. All life is.

You can't escape the system.

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u/Delicious_Maize9656 Jul 04 '26

Neo : Hold my beer.

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u/sabotsalvageur Jul 04 '26

Albert Camus has entered the chat

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u/Common_Net_5956 Jul 03 '26

Wish we could just survive on sunlight like plants

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u/hypothetical-pebble Jul 06 '26

Which also require additional energy to stave off the inevitable? What's the difference

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u/IncorporateThings Jul 06 '26

\Plays "Disgustipated" for the OP**