Dear Many, Many Authors...

[branchandroot]

...Entropy is not destruction. Entropy is gridlock.

Now, if that's your idea of the ultimate undesirable, which must be fought by all living beings with the utmost of their hearts and souls, fine! Go for it, write your little heart out, I'll probably even buy it just to see it. But the little physicist in the back of my head is crying pathetically into her beer over the sheer inaccuracy with which "entropy" is too often used, and every time she thinks about how widespread this bad press is getting she wails in a truly heartrending fashion.

Gridlock, got it?

Only slightly sarcastic love and kisses,
Branch

Comments

[stormyseasons]

....Gridlock... Still not a bad metaphor for the sort of discussion that entropy gets pigeonholed in as source of evil for, I guess. Just need to shuffle some of those desciptors and offshoot ideas...

[branchandroot]

*wry* Yeah, at least this might make people more likely to admit the sheer anthropocentrism at the heart of "entropy = evil". It totally sucks for the people trying to get to work!