Stephen Hawking said that, in the Universe, disorder increases with time.
Also, it is quite obvious that knowledge increases as time passes
That being said; could it be true that knowledge is disorder?
2006-09-11 17:27:24 · 8 answers · asked by Ammy 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, because the two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. That's like saying I get older over time and so does the universe. It doesn't mean I'm the universe, it just means that we are doing something at the same time.
2006-09-11 17:30:08 · answer #1 · answered by Andrea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Hawking also explained that the order created by learning or writing down knowledge is outdone by the disorder created by the expendature of energy... the calories burned. Entropy says that overall things become less orderly over time. While you can create and make things seemingly giving the universe more order this doesn't negate the fact that you are using energy and detroying things in the process (think of all the detruction that takes place in buiding a table - cutting the tree, burnign fuel, decay, cutting the wood... creating the nails, the energy nailing them in). Plus everywhere else ice is melting, things are decaying, exploding, burning... It is kind of a Disney look at entropy but you get the idea.
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy
2006-09-11 17:38:45 · answer #2 · answered by iMi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My lord, what a question! I suppose that in many ways, this is true. A person's creative imagination is a form of their own knowledge, but Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge, and are those who have creative genius not usually the outcasts and eccentric oddballs of our world? What true genius ISN'T insane? Knowledge brings thought, and thinking and thinking again and again about the most mundane of things? Is that not enough to drive one to insanity? And insanity is disorder in its finest form. The world is insanity and chaos and disorder, and yes, how could it NOT increase with time? With time, we come to think and think on things until finally we understand them, and when we are able to control that knowledge, we create great things, but everything great holds repercussions. Is the invention of the gun not great? But it can still kill an innocent man just as well as a guilty one.
2006-09-12 12:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes the universe is going to chaos as a whole, but some things go from chaos to order. Now some are rare, but aligning electrical signals in your brain to store knowledge is order. Life is the one of the ultimate bringers of order. look at it like this, your mother ate food all her life breaking it down from order to disorder. When you were conceived that disorder was used to creat something ordered, you.
The universe as a whole is going to disorder but not everything.
2006-09-11 21:31:17 · answer #4 · answered by QuantumC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is related to life, itself already a slight conundrum, since life also becomes more ordered. But, it is only temporary, and takes energy to produce. Once life passes, the matter goes on it's merry way (to greater disorder), as do any thoughts that the previous occupant once had.
2006-09-11 17:35:04 · answer #5 · answered by powhound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your statement is complete crap, because you try to make a logical conclusion from two completely independent statements.
It would be the same when I say, brown dung stinks. Trees are brown, too, so trees will stink ... ???
That is what you did with your statement.
2006-09-12 00:43:16 · answer #6 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
technically yes it can e considered as that. back in the day- it was considered as such and some thought of it as a source of witch craft.
2006-09-11 17:29:29 · answer #7 · answered by kacsspock1221 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2006-09-15 15:18:48 · answer #8 · answered by T diddy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋