I’ve spent a lifetime battling mess and confusion, moving bits of information and solace around to where I think they’ll do the most good. The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that mine is a mug’s game, something that can’t be won. But, like the veriest videogame addict, I keep on battling, happy for each small victory.
Frank is a First-Law-of-Thermodynamics person. Balanced, honest, square–the energy in equals the energy out. I realized this yesterday as I lay in a beach chair watching him swim and swim and swim away all the calories of his really-quite-restrained breakfast.
So I guess I’d have to admit ours is a mixed marriage.
Just one more physics concept that you’ve surely noticed: reversing time’s arrow. Lots of experimental work going on all around us, most of it expensive.
But who am I to judge? Botoxers, sports-car drivers, and entropy warriors–we should probably all get together on one secret handshake.