Like why planet? Why sphere? Why is there a solar system? Why system instead of no system? How did entropy create anti-entropy agents? Bees, humans, anything that builds non-random structures?
Sorry if this is a bad question, it just popped into my head and it won’t go away.
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>How did entropy create anti-entropy agents?
It never did. Everything takes more energy to make than it puts out. Nothing even comes close to 100% efficiency on returns, and you’re assuming that planets and systems somehow produce more than 100% of the energy used to bring them into existence in the first place. Anything that happens causes entropy, even building structures and power plants. The net loss is always greater than the gain. If you could gain more than you lost, then you would have infinite energy and could reverse entropy. As far as we know, that’s impossible.
>Like why planet? Why sphere? Why is there a solar system? Why system instead of no system?
These are all easily answered by the laws of physics. Gravity exerts energy equally in all directions. This makes mass attract into nice balls of material. Mass that doesn’t fall into the sun is in constant freefall in orbit, but eventually even orbits decay. So the system we have now didn’t always exist, and will eventually not exist anymore in the future. There is no such thing as an anti-entropy agent.
>Bees, humans, anything that builds non-random structures?
Life, as complex and amazing as it may be, is still powered entirely by the sun and limited by all the available material on Earth. The sun is inputting energy into the Earth ecosystem, but the sun is losing vastly more amounts of energy in the meantime. The Earth doesn’t neatly collect 100% of the energy, and converting that energy into something else causes even more losses. So while it may look like the Earth is an amazing anti-entropy dynamo, it’s actually like blasting a flamethrower (sun) onto a firecracker (earth). Most of the flames don’t hit the firecracker, and the flames that do light the wick lead the firecracker to make explosive reactions at far less the energy output of the flamethrower itself. This also significantly wastes flamethrower fuel that would be more than enough to light thousands of firecrackers. I hope that makes sense.
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