Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Death, Rebirth, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Nothing truly disappears in the universe. Energy just changes form.

When a star dies, it becomes the stuff of new stars. When a body returns to the earth, it becomes soil, trees, and eventually new life.

The second law of thermodynamics says entropy increases – things fall apart. But it also says that from that disorder, new order can emerge.

Maybe death isn’t the opposite of life. Maybe it’s just the universe’s way of recycling.

And if that’s true for stars and atoms, why not for us?

Perhaps every ending is secretly a beginning wearing different clothes. And every time we let go of who we were, we make space for who we’re becoming.

The universe doesn’t waste anything. Not even us.

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