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We may observe that cyclical or loosely periodic phenomena are extremely common in nature with phases varying over more than thirty orders of magnitude. Is there some overarching physical principle at work here; some deep line of code in the cosmic program as to why this should be so? This is...

Thanks, that is a great article. He states that: " * The energy of a gravitationally bound cloud of gas decreases as the cloud shrinks. * The entropy of a gravitionally bound cloud of gas decreases as the cloud shrinks. * A gravitationally bound cloud of gas has a negative...

Dear me, I am conumdrumed again. If the system is the universe as a whole (that is, no external sink), is it not true that there is a general trend toward increasing entropy?

"It's only a conundrum because you are assuming that: entropy increase = spread out." Yeah, it is dispersed in micro-states but not necessarily spread out in space as with background radiation. I am distressed that such a fundamental concept is so difficult for me to get a firm handle on...

"Does the spontaneous contraction of a cloud of gas due to gravity violate the second law of thermodynamics? In other words, does entropy decrease as a result of the gravitational contraction?" This question is posed in interesting article here...

Oh, entropy! Good question. I know entropy to be a state function at thermodynamic equilibrium, wherein the energy is evenly dispersed among the various micro-states of the system. I believe there would be a relationship between coherence within a system and the number of micro-states that...

I don't want to force one notion upon another, but it seems one could make a case for this view. At maximum potential the molecular vibrations of the pendulum material would be statistically more random, "incoherent"; at kinetic maximum they would share a single vector of motion, statistically...

Is there an established context in which the oscillation of a pendulum between potential and kinetic forms of energy can be described in term of coherence, that is, viewed as an oscillation between coherence and incoherence? (here incoherence is taken as the antonym of coherence)