Examples include, among others nowadays, the following:
- Hurricane that get rid of their motive power, sowing desolation on the earth of mankind,
- The so-called control and safety valves in which, inadvertently, chaos has been allowed to set in, while they must protect people, facilities and the environment.
Let us explain briefly below (more complete documentation attached).
Among the elements that participate in the destiny of the World, order and disorder are of paramount importance.
The standard Big Bang model, generally accepted, admits that order reigned at the beginning of time. Cosmologists teach us that there was a time when light, composed of photons devoid of mass, after having made matter appear, managed to escape from it and was able to invade the entire Universe.
Scientists decoupled light from matter in their works, studying them separately, at least until the beginning of the 20th century. Classical mechanics relied on order to establish its laws applicable to elements with mass. The principle of least action, which states that Nature does not like to get tired, summed up the situation.
With the industrial era, thermodynamics appeared and its second principle was charged with finally taking into account disorder in material systems. Entropy, more commonly called disorder, measured the degradation caused by irreversibilities of all kinds. With entropy, time was born and gave itself its future-oriented arrow.
Thermodynamics, this law of Nature, allowed some people to announce that the Universe, considered as a closed system, was dying. It was then shown that the degradation of energy observed in our visible macroscopic world had its source in the microscopic world. Statistical physics was able to take the gigantic number of particles into account in the infinitely small by using probability theory. The world was no longer going to die, it was only likely to die.
Why must we wait billions of years to reach the probable thermal death of the Universe?
Because structures with order arose and hindered the general movement caused by the return to equilibrium after the Big Bang. The chaos theory associated with the second principle of thermodynamics shows that the world, in its march towards disorder, is capable of creating self-organized structures. They have been called dissipative structures in order to associate the notions of order and disorder that compose them. All these ordered structures such as planets, trees, … in short, life and humankind are dissipative structures.
This Creation is admired by men.
But these structures, because of the order they contain, are not always welcome.
When the dreaded microscopic world subjugates our macroscopic world (example of the hurricane).
The excessive rise in the surface temperature of tropical seas is the main cause of the atmospheric agitation that occurs during the warm season. This is how tropical storms first form, and hurricanes are sometimes likely to emerge. These hurricanes are dissipative structures formed by Nature using the above-mentioned laws. The order that enters the tropical storm system transforms it into a hurricane, i.e. an enormous mobile thermal power plant on the ocean surface that produces mechanical energy and uses it to develop further.
The order contained in this ordered structure is due to the organization of billions of billions of molecules that take control of the hurricane. This order must be destroyed, as it opposes the necessary degradation of energy and extends the life span of this dangerous phenomenon. This is why it was necessary to conceive the principle of worst action, which is head-on opposed to the principle of least action of classical mechanics. We can thus hope, at the cost of a significant technological effort, to destabilize a hurricane by disrupting the regulation of its molecular system in order to downgrade it to a tropical storm, much less aggressive and much more useful for the thermal balance of our planet.
Is it permissible for a physicist to disturb Creation by removing order from nature?
Why would this principle of worst action be allowed in its application to the valves of nuclear power plants, and would it be prohibited in the case of hurricanes?
Seeking to justify this principle, which is likely to offend beliefs, we can point out that the order that is introduced during the formation of a hurricane is at a very important entropic level. A Supreme Being cannot found in the material éléments of a hurricane that is promised to disappear, but in the immaterial light of photons over which the second degrading principle of thermodynamics has no hold. Its presence is not to be sought in disorder but in a state of perfect order for which all the information is known. However, this state of zero entropy does not exist in a hurricane; far from it.
The principle of worst action, which makes it possible to master orderly structures that are dangerous for humanity, therefore seems to conform to the precepts of religion. (unless the author of this note, who is not a theologian, is mistaken).
Michel Pluviose
For valves, see at: https://www.physics3worlds.com
For tropical cyclones, see at: https://www.hurricane-physics.com
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